| Edition |
First Restless Books hardcover edition. |
| Description |
228 pages ; 19 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
"First published as Nueve lunas by Mondadori, Barcelona, 2009." |
| Summary |
"Gabriela Wiener is not one to shy away from unpleasant truths or to balk at a challenge. She began her writing career by infiltrating Peru's most dangerous prison, going all in at swingers' clubs, and ingesting ayahuasca in the Amazon jungle. So at 30, when she gets unexpectedly pregnant, she looks forward to the experience the way a mountain climber approaches a precipitous peak. With a scientist's curiosity and a libertine's unbridled imagination, Wiener hungrily devours every scrap of information and misinformation she encounters during the nine months of her pregnancy. She ponders how pleasure and pain always have something to do with things entering or exiting your body. She laments that manuals for pregnant women don't prepare you for ambushes of lust or that morning sickness is like waking up with a hangover and a guilty conscience all at once. And she tries to navigate the infinity of choices and contradictory demands a pregnant woman confronts, each one amplified to a life-and-death decision."--Dust jacket flap. |
| Subject |
Wiener, Gabriela, 1975-
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Wiener, Gabriela, 1975- -- Family.
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Authors, Peruvian -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Pregnancy.
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Unwanted pregnancy.
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Motherhood.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
Ernst Powell, Jessica, translator.
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| Added Title |
Nueve lunas. English
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9 moons |
| ISBN |
1632062232 hardcover |
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9781632062239 hardcover |
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