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Can You Tolerate This?
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Can You Tolerate This?

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Can You Tolerate This? is a collection of twenty-one personal essays by Ashleigh Young. In this spirited and singular book, Young roams freely from preoccupation to preoccupation - Hamilton’s 90s music scene, family histories, a boy with a rare skeletal disease, a stone-collecting French postman, a desire for impossible physical transformation - trying to find some measure of clarity amid uncertainty. How to bear each moment of experience: the inconsequential as much as the shattering? Her search takes us through poignant, funny and raw territories. ‘This is a brave, sometimes confronting, always intriguing, often compelling and distinctly unusual book. The essays are consistently entertaining in a way that is rare in literary nonfiction of any kind. The voice is one which readers will fall in love with.’ -Martin Edmond ‘Some of Ashleigh Young’s personal essays feel to me like beautifully told short stories - they just happen to be true, or true-ish.’ -Bill Manhire

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Country
New Zealand
Date
3 August 2016
Pages
224
ISBN
9781776560769

Can You Tolerate This? is a collection of twenty-one personal essays by Ashleigh Young. In this spirited and singular book, Young roams freely from preoccupation to preoccupation - Hamilton’s 90s music scene, family histories, a boy with a rare skeletal disease, a stone-collecting French postman, a desire for impossible physical transformation - trying to find some measure of clarity amid uncertainty. How to bear each moment of experience: the inconsequential as much as the shattering? Her search takes us through poignant, funny and raw territories. ‘This is a brave, sometimes confronting, always intriguing, often compelling and distinctly unusual book. The essays are consistently entertaining in a way that is rare in literary nonfiction of any kind. The voice is one which readers will fall in love with.’ -Martin Edmond ‘Some of Ashleigh Young’s personal essays feel to me like beautifully told short stories - they just happen to be true, or true-ish.’ -Bill Manhire

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Country
New Zealand
Date
3 August 2016
Pages
224
ISBN
9781776560769