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The Argonauts
Author: Maggie Nelson
Narrator: Maggie Nelson
Unabridged: 4 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: 06/01/2016
Synopsis
A timely and genre-bending memoir that offers fresh and fierce reflections on motherhood, desire, identity and feminismAt the centre of The Argonauts is the love story between Maggie Nelson and the artist Harry Dodge, who is fluidly gendered. As Nelson undergoes the transformations of pregnancy, she explores the challenges and complexities of mothering and queer family making.Writing in the tradition of public intellectuals like Susan Sontag, Nelson uses arresting prose even as she questions the limits of language. The Argonauts is an intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of love, language and family. Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. A Kirkus Reviews' Best Books Selection for 2015. A New York Times Editor's Choice. A Bust Magazine Pick from Carrie Brownstein's Reading List. A 2017 Folio Prize Nominee.
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