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Can You Tolerate This?

Ashleigh Young

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#3934 of 8,085 books · #1991 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Writers' Prize (2019).

Can You Tolerate This? won a Windham-Campbell Prize in 2017 and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019. In Can You Tolerate This? Ashleigh Young ushers us into her early years, coming of age in a small town in the faraway yet familiar New Zealand, yearning for a larger and more creative life. As Young's perspective expands, a series of historical portraits – a boy with a rare skeletal disease, a French postman who built a stone fortress by hand, a generation of Japanese shut-ins – strike unexpected personal harmonies, as an unselfconscious childhood gives way to painful shyness in adolescence. As we watch Young fall in and out of love, undertake intense physical exercise that masks something deeper, and gradually find herself through her writing, a highly particular psyche comes into view: curious, tender and exacting in her observations of herself and the world around her.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13
9781526600370
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Coming of ageIdentity and self-discoveryMemoir and personal essays

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