Joanna Kavenna
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The United Kingdom
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Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
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3894 editions
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1883
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Zed
12 editions
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2019
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Come to the Edge
9 editions
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2012
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A Field Guide to Reality
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2016
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The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
7 editions
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2006
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The Birth of Love
8 editions
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2010
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Inglorious
16 editions
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2007
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Drawn from Life: Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne
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Disgraceful Little Things
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“You won't get extra marks for being teacher's pet. You won't go to the top of the class. There is no class. There is no teacher. Or if there is then you have to understand that he or she doesn't actually like you. You are not being marked out of ten for how neatly you sharpen your pencil and how lovely your handwriting is. You are not going to get a gold star. You are not the fucking flower monitor and no one cares what you do.”
― Come to the Edge
― Come to the Edge
“The following morning she realised they hated her. That hurt her feelings; she always preferred her hatred to be unreciprocated.”
― Inglorious
― Inglorious
“Worst of all, Patrick kept praising her; he said he didn't know how she managed it all. He was trying to encourage her, though it made her feel alone, too, that her experience was untranslatable, obscure to him. He did not perceive that she was half-mad with fatigue, and yet she rose each day and knew she must play her part, she must be a mother to her son, she must be measured with him, never raise her voice to him, even when her blood was curdling with frustration. Yet often she felt so happy, so overwhelmed with love - everything was incoherent and ragged and she could not explain it to Patrick; she mostly blamed him when things were hard. She wanted him to experience it, too - the relentlessness, how it did not end, and you could never rest, how it was beautiful and it smashed you to pieces at the same time - but he usually came home after Calumn was in bed, found her collapsed and monosyllabic on the sofa. She told herself each day she must remember he was a wonderful father, a wonderful husband, this would soon be over - then everything got clouded, this chemical exhaustion took hold of her, and she slipped again.”
― The Birth of Love
― The Birth of Love
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