Full name: The Folded Clock: A Diary

Author: Heidi Julavits Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780385538985 9780804171441 0385538987 0804171440

Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer) she'd since become. Instead, "The actual diaries revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor."      Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life as a fortysomething woman, wife, mother, and writer. The dazzling result is The Folded Clock, in which the diary form becomes a meditation on time and self, youth and aging, betrayal and loyalty, friendship and romance, faith and fate, marriage and family, desire and death, gossip and secrets, art and ambition.      The Folded Clock is as playful as it is brilliant, a tour de force by one of the most gifted prose stylists in American letters. Similar books: Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso The Camera My Mother Gave Me by Susanna Kaysen The Undertaker's Daughter by Kate Mayfield Toil & Trouble by Augusten Burroughs Life in a Day by Doris Grumbach Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot The Big Tiny by Dee Williams Love Life by Rob Lowe Half a Life by Darin Strauss Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham The House by the Sea by May Sarton How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten The Writing Life by Annie Dillard Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan Notes from No Man's Land by Eula Biss Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill