Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties

by Suzanne Roberts and Suzanne Roberts

Book Overview

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner in Essays

How do we reckon with our losses? In Animal Bodies Suzanne Roberts explores the link between death and desire and what it means to accept our own animal natures, the parts we most often hide, deny, or consider only with shame--our taboo desires and our grief. In landscapes as diverse as Salamanca's cobbled streets,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496231023
• ISBN13: 9781496231024
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 8.5"