Ambivalence: An Education
After his mother dies when he is sixteen, Brian Dillon stops caring about school, and his real education happens elsewhere, in books, films, music, and television. This coming-of-age memoir of Dublin in the late 1980s and 1990s follows his first encounters with Woolf, Beckett, Benjamin, Barthes, and Derrida, and makes a quietly fierce case for changing yourself by changing what you know.
For anyone who was raised by the books they found on their own. A love letter to reading as rebellion.
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