The Argonauts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781555977351)

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family

Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. It binds an account of Nelson's relationship with her partner and a journey to and through a pregnancy to a rigorous exploration of sexuality, gender, and "family." An insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.

Author: Maggie Nelson
ISBN-10: 1555977359
ISBN-13: 9781555977351
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Language: English
Published: 01/26/2016
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.50d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/14/2016 pg. 28