![]() Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, Cain moves associatively through a personal canon of authors- including Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Renee Gladman, and Virginia Woolf- and topics as timely and various as female friendships, zazen meditation, neighborhood coyotes, landscape painting, book titles, and the politics of excess. e her work, and sensibility," writes Claire-Louise Bennett of Amina Cain and Jenny Offill: "Cain writes beautiful precise sentences about what it means to wander through this luminous world." Cain's unique wandering sensibility, her attention to the small and the surprising, finds a profound new expression in her first nonfiction book, a sustained meditation on writers and their work. A truly beautiful book." -Ayseguel Savas "I ador. Amina Cain is our generous, gentle guide through an exquisite library. It asks us to consider fiction as life and life as fiction. ![]() "A Horse at Night is like light from a candle in the evening: intimate, pleasurable, full of wonder. ![]() ![]() ![]() A Horse at Night: On Writing (Trade Paperback / Paperback) ![]()
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