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In The Dark Room
In The Dark Room
In The Dark Room
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Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the author's experience of losing both his parents, his mother when he was sixteen, his father when he was on the cusp of adulthood and of trying, after a breakdown some years later, to piece things together. Drawing on the lessons of centuries of literature, philosophy and visual art, Dillon interprets the relics of his parents and of his childhood in a singularly original and arresting piece of writing reissued for the first time since its original publication in 2005, and including a new foreword from prize-winning biographer Frances Wilson.
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Release dateFeb 14, 2018
ISBN9781910695739
In The Dark Room
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Brian Dillon

 Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include  Essayism ,   The Great Explosion  (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize),  Objects in This Mirror: Essays ,  I Am Sitting in a Room ,  Sanctuary ,  Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives  (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and  In the Dark Room , which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. His writing has appeared in the  Guardian ,  New York Times ,  London Review of Books ,  Times Literary Supplement ,  Bookforum ,  frieze  and  Artforum . He is UK editor of  Cabinet  magazine, and teaches Creative Writing at Queen Mary, University of London. 

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