Larger than an Orange

Larger than an Orange

Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Literary Biography & Memoir
Hardback Published on: 23/09/2021
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Larger than an Orange
An insightful account like no other!
In Larger than an Orange Lucy Burns describes the story of a terminated pregnancy. Starting with the discovery that she's pregnant with a child she does no... READ MORE
Jan at Leeds

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This is the story of an abortion.

The days and hours before the first visit to the clinic and the weeks and months after.

The pregnancy was a mistake and the narrator immediately arranges a termination. But a gulf yawns between politics and personal experience. The polarised public debate and the broader cultural silence did not prepare her for the physical event or the emotional aftermath. She finds herself compulsively telling people about the abortion (and counting those who know), struggling at work and researching the procedure. She feels alone in her pain and confusion.

Part diary, part prose poem, part literary collage, Larger than an Orange is an uncompromising, intimate and original memoir. With raw precision and determined honesty, Lucy Burns carves out a new space for complexity, ambivalence and individual experience.

  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781784744410
  • Number of pages: 240
  • Weight: 317g
  • Dimensions: 204 x 138 x 25 mm

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