{"product_id":"the-unwritten-book-an-investigation","title":"The Unwritten Book - An Investigation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Samantha Hunt, the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Dark, \u003c\/i\u003ecomes \u003ci\u003eThe Unwritten Book\u003c\/i\u003e, her first work of nonfiction, a genre-bending creation that explores the importance of books, the idea of haunting, and messages from beyond \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eI carry each book I've ever read with me, just as I carry my dead those things that aren't really there, those things that shape everything I am. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Unwritten Book \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexplores ghosts, ghost stories, and haunting, in the broadest sense of each. What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? Books are ghosts; reading is communion with the dead.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlcohol is a way of communing, too, as well as a way of dying. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach chapter gathers subjects that haunt: dead people, the forest, the towering library of all those books we'll never have time to read or write. Hunt, like a mad crossword puzzler, looks for patterns and clues.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough literary criticism, history, family history, and memoir, inspired by W. G. Sebald, James Joyce, Ali Smith, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and many others, Hunt explores motherhood, hoarding, legacies of addiction, grief, how we insulate ourselves from the past, how we misinterpret the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNestled within her inquiry is a very special ghost book, an incomplete manuscript about people who can fly without wings, written by her father and found in his desk just days after he died. What secret messages might his work reveal? What wisdom might she distill from its unfinished pages? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHunt conveys a vivid and grateful life, one that comes from living closer to the dead and shedding fear for wonder. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Unwritten Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e revels in the randomness, connectivity, and magic of everyday existence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd at its heart is the immense weight of love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brøglitteraturbar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56321550713218,"sku":null,"price":225.0,"currency_code":"DKK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/3296\/2946\/files\/A1H8qMtq0GL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1770393967","url":"https:\/\/www.broeglitteraturbar.dk\/products\/the-unwritten-book-an-investigation","provider":"Brøglitteraturbar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}