{"product_id":"a-horse-at-night-isbn-9781948980135","title":"A Horse at Night","description":"\u003cb\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Horse at Night\u003c\/i\u003e is like light from a candle in the evening: intimate, pleasurable, full of wonder. It asks us to consider fiction as life and life as fiction. Amina Cain is our generous, gentle guide through an exquisite library. A truly beautiful book.” —Ayşegül Savaş\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I adore 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. 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. \u003ci\u003eA Horse at Night: On Writing\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate reckoning with the contemporary moment, and a quietly brilliant contribution to the lineage of Woolf’s\u003ci\u003e A Room of One’s Own\u003c\/i\u003e or Gass’s \u003ci\u003eOn Being Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, books that are virtuosic arguments for—and beautiful demonstrations of—the essential unity of writing and life.“In \u003ci\u003eA Horse at Night: On Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, a shifting, elliptical essay on the writing life, Cain admits the crushing heaviness of composition, and the airy fantasies that attend it. She ‘grazes’ at her writing—a metaphor she shares with Roland Barthes, on his reading—and she dreams (via Italo Calvino) of an impossible lightness. \u003ci\u003eA Horse at Night\u003c\/i\u003e is in part about this hope, but more ambitiously it’s an allusive and engaging account of the raptures you’d miss if complete creative ease were really possible.” —Brian Dillon, \u003ci\u003e4Columns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Horse at Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a transmutation of fiction and nonfiction, a form of unfurling, soft and grainy at the edges. Moving through this text feels like resting your eyes on shifting shapes on a walk in the dusk.”—Sophie Brown, \u003ci\u003eAstra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A masterful work about writing and reading, that feels like a manifesto and conversation all in one. Intimate, insightful and brilliant.” —Sinéad Gleeson\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Avoiding all the tropes of those popular how-to books, what Cain has managed to produce is something much more indispensable. As with Berger or Woolf before, \u003ci\u003eA Horse at Night\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates with painstaking accuracy how it is possible to live \u003ci\u003ewithin\u003c\/i\u003e art, as if it might play a role in everything we do or say or love, as if the self might be made up of more than the distinctly visible. More than learning the machinery of plot, what any young writer needs to know is that such a life—with its imperfections and impossible queries—is possible.” —Connor Harrison, \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A delightful meditation on reading and writing from a writer whose talent is seemingly limitless . . . Cain’s prose remains deceptively simple, but contains a latent beauty worthy of stopping even the most avid of readers in their tracks. This is a marvelous new addition to the realm of genre-resistant literary nonfiction.” —Meghana Kandlur, Open Books (Chicago)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Cain offers a spare, graceful meditation on her rich, idiosyncratic reading and her practice of writing.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Readers will relish following Cain’s winding prose and carefully considered conclusions. Fans of her work—and of literary criticism more generally—won’t want to miss this.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmina Cain\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eIndelicacy\u003c\/i\u003e and two collections of short fiction, \u003ci\u003eCreature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eI Go to Some Hollow\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essays and short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFull Stop\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e, the Believer Logger, and other places. She lives in Los Angeles.","brand":"Dorothy, a publishing project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300855927013,"sku":"NP9781948980135","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781948980135.jpg?v=1767720537","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-horse-at-night-isbn-9781948980135","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}