{"product_id":"the-world-was-whole-fiona-wright-9781925336979","title":"The World Was Whole","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the 2019 Stella Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe follow-up to Fiona Wright's essay\n\u003cbr\u003ecollection Small Acts of Disappearance\n\u003cbr\u003e- winner of the Nita B. Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for Non-fiction,\n\u003cbr\u003eshortlisted for the Stella Prize and the NSW Premier's Award for Non-fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur bodies and homes are\n\u003cbr\u003eour shelters, each one intimately a part of the other. But what about those who\n\u003cbr\u003efeel anxious, uncomfortable, unsettled within these havens? In The World Was\n\u003cbr\u003eWhole, Fiona Wright examines how we inhabit and remember the familiar spaces\n\u003cbr\u003eof our homes and suburbs, as we move through them and away from them into the\n\u003cbr\u003ewider world, devoting ourselves to the routines and rituals that make up our\n\u003cbr\u003elives. These affectingly personal essays consider how all-consuming the\n\u003cbr\u003eengagement with the ordinary can be, and how even small encounters and\n\u003cbr\u003einteractions can illuminate our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMany of the essays are set\n\u003cbr\u003ein the inner and south-western suburbs of a major Australian city in the midst\n\u003cbr\u003eof rapid change. Others travel to the volcanic coastline of Iceland, the\n\u003cbr\u003emega-city of Shanghai, the rugged Surf Coast of southern Victoria. The essays\n\u003cbr\u003eare poetic and observant, and often funny, animated by curiosity and candour.\n\u003cbr\u003eBeneath them all lies the experience of chronic illness and its treatment, and\n\u003cbr\u003ethe consideration of how this can reshape and reorder our assumptions about the\n\u003cbr\u003eworld and our place within it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'In this exquisite follow-on from her award-winning memoir-in-essays Small Acts of Disappearance, Fiona Wright continues to set the standard for the essay form in Australia.' - Jo Case, Books+Publishing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Small Acts of Disappearance:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Wright has a gift for compression, lyricism, and a\n\u003cbr\u003epoet's ear for rhythm, all of which animate even the most heartbreaking\n\u003cbr\u003epassages.' - The Australian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Each essay works as a kind\n\u003cbr\u003eof poetic auto-ethnography, moving between inexplicable realities of the self\n\u003cbr\u003eand those of the world-at-large; between life's surfaces and interiors.' - Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fiona Wright","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43176694382835,"sku":"9781925336979","price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781925336979.jpg?v=1662088125","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-world-was-whole-fiona-wright-9781925336979","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}