https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=BSOPAC%3A%20BLUETS&QRYTEXT=Anywhere%3A%20bluets%20(Keywords)&SETLVL=SET&CF=GEN&SORTS=DTE.DATE1.DESC&NRECS=20 Spydus Search Results en © 2022 Civica Pty Limited. All rights reserved. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2505593&CF=GEN Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend. The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief. Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend. The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Nelson, Maggie, 1973-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Jonathan Cape, 2017.<br />98 pages ; 21 cm<br /><br />Fleet - (HANTS) - Adult Non-Fiction - 818.609 - In-transit from Romsey to Fleet (Set: 09 Apr 2024) - C016371361<br />Lymington - (HANTS) - Adult Non-Fiction - 818.609 - Available - C016370760<br />Winchester Library - (HANTS) - Adult Non-Fiction - 818.609 - Onloan - Due: 10 May 2024 - C016368767<br />