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A creative memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves chronicles a year spent writing a sonata from scratch, in full recognition of the likelihood of failure, to see what can be learned about ambition and limitation. And time. The Point of Distraction explores the way that second-string activities bring one’s main interests in life into focus, considering artists as critics, writers as musicians. Staring at your creative pursuit straight on can render it impossible, but if you let it occupy the space of distraction, to your side, it lives and breathes. This novel memoir touches on neuroscience, musical theory and will power.

Author Biography:

Will Eaves is a novelist and poet. Murmur, his most recent novel, won the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize and was co-winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Fiction. He has worked as Arts Editor of the Times Literary Supplement and Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. His work has appeared in the Guardian, the Yale Review and the New Yorker, and he is co-host with Professor Sophie Scott of The Neuromantics, a podcast on science and literature.
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August 29th, 2024
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80
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135x204x8
ISBN-13
9780008432362
Product ID
35694381

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