In the Dark Room - Dillon, Brian
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The emotional and cultural workings of memory are considered in this collection of essays, through the lens of the author's attempts to cope with the passing of both parents while on the cusp of adulthood following a breakdown several years later. Reissued for the first time since publication in 2005, this is an erudite, informed and deeply personal record of facing one's own sense of loss.

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The emotional and cultural workings of memory are considered in this collection of essays, through the lens of the author's attempts to cope with the passing of both parents while on the cusp of adulthood following a breakdown several years later. Reissued for the first time since publication in 2005, this is an erudite, informed and deeply personal record of facing one's own sense of loss.
Autorenporträt
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, and Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize). 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 at the Royal College of Art, London. Originally published in 2005, In the Dark Room is his first book and won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. Frances Wilson is a biographer, whose books include The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth and Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey. She teaches writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London.