Look! We Have Come Through!

Living With D. H. Lawrence

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Look! We Have Come Through!

Living With D. H. Lawrence

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'Her intensity and intimacy are engaging' Blake Morrison, Guardian
'A lovely, urgent, serious book' Tessa Hadley
'Refreshing and unexpected' Daisy Hay, Financial Times

Brilliantly interweaving literary criticism, biography and memoir, Look! We Have Come Through! is a captivating exhumation of an author and a compelling manifesto for exposing ourselves to difficult and dangerous views.

Lara Feigel listens to birds outside her window – their circling, strident calls – and thinks of D. H. Lawrence. It is the spring of 2020 and, as the pandemic takes hold, she locks down in rural Oxfordshire with her partner, her two children, and that most explosive of writers.

Proceeding month by month through the year, she sets out to start again with Lawrence: to find vital literary companionship; to use him as a guide to rural living and even, unexpectedly, to child-rearing; to find a way through his writing to excavate the modern world she feels he helped bring into being. Tracing the arc of Lawrence's life and delving deep into his writings, she confronts his anger, his passion, his tumultuous vitality. In the process, she faces some of today's most urgent dilemmas, from secular religion to the climate crisis, from sex and sexuality to feminism's ideas about motherhood. And, as she watches the seasons change alongside Lawrence, Feigel finds the rhythms of her own life shifting in unexpected ways.

Product details

Published 12 Oct 2023
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9781408877555
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing
Dimensions 198 x 129 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Lara Feigel

Lara Feigel is a Professor of Modern Literature an…

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