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A Horse at Night

On Writing

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A Horse at Night

By: Amina Cain
Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
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Amina Cain's unique wandering sensibility, her attention to the small and the surprising, finds a profound new expression in her first nonfiction book, a sustained meditation on writers and their work. Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, Cain moves associatively through a personal canon of authors—including Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Renee Gladman, and Virginia Woolf—and topics as timely and various as female friendships, zazen meditation, neighborhood coyotes, landscape painting, book titles, and the politics of excess.

A Horse at Night: On Writing is an intimate reckoning with the contemporary moment, and a quietly brilliant contribution to the lineage of Woolf's A Room of One's Own or Gass's On Being Blue, books that are virtuosic arguments for—and beautiful demonstrations of—the essential unity of writing and life.

©2022 Amina Cain (P)2022 Tantor Literary History & Criticism

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Don’t really write reviews but the narrator occasionally puts on this cod-English accent when reading quotes. I say occasionally because she doesn’t always do it (Joanna Walsh quote for example). One accent she put on was so bad I could t even take in what she was saying. Other than that i enjoyed it and look forward to reading Amina Cain’s fiction.

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