Hold Still Hold Still

Hold Still

A Memoir with Photographs

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Publisher Description

This National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann.

In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her.

Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder."

In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2015
May 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
496
Pages
PUBLISHER
Little, Brown and Company
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
62.3
MB

Customer Reviews

BenJones3 ,

Art as Life

Sharp and pungent, like a good cheese. This is delicious memoir.

Meganvirginies ,

Boring

Had to read this for class and just didn’t like it.

Voldemort345755 ,

Hold Still by Sally Mann

Wise, witty, erudite, this book is just a sheer delight.

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