Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays

by Claire Messud

Book Overview

In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and literature.

In twenty-six intimate, brilliant, and funny essays, Messud reflects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324006757
• ISBN13: 9781324006756
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.7" x 8.2"