Reckoning

Name: Reckoning
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781635579048
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By V (formerly Eve Ensler)

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Reckoning by V, formerly known as Eve Ensler, offers a deeply personal account of the author's journey through life, detailing her experiences with trauma, survival, and activism. V shares intimate reflections, weaving together essays, poems, and journal entries to explore themes of identity, resilience, and the power of storytelling. The narrative serves as both a memoir and a testament to the healing process through creative expression.
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Format: Hardback

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This book may appeal to you if you are interested in a powerful and deeply personal reflection that weaves together themes of trauma, healing, and activism. With evocative prose, the work invites readers to explore the transformative journey of the author, offering insights into the complexities of identity and recovery. Ideal for those who appreciate memoirs that challenge societal norms and inspire change.

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A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the Season

The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues—political, personal, profound, and more than forty years in the making.

The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), Reckoning invites you to travel the journey of a writer’s and activist’s life and process over forty years, representing both the core of ideas that have become global movements and the methods through which V survived abuse and self-hatred.

Seamlessly moving from the internal to the external, the personal to the political, Reckoning is a moving and inspiring work of prose, poetry, dreams, letters, and essays drawn from V’s lifelong journals that takes readers from Berlin to Oklahoma to the Congo, from climate disaster, homelessness, and activism to family.

Unflinching, intimate, introspective, courageous, Reckoning explores ways to create an unstoppable force for change, to love and survive love, to hold people and states accountable, to reckon with demons and honour the dead, to reclaim the body, and to see oneself as connected to a greater purpose.

It reimagines what seems fixed and intractable, providing a path to understand one’s unique experience as deeply rooted in the world, to break through one’s own boundaries, and to write oneself into freedom.

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Reckoning by V (formerly Eve Ensler) is a deeply personal and political memoir that engages readers with themes of resilience, activism, and overcoming adversity. Critics praise the book for its raw and provocative exploration of personal and professional experiences, infused with grief and vulnerability. It's seen as a powerful call for justice and healing, with V's narrative providing a stirring reflection on personal struggles and broader societal issues.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781635579048

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 October 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Illustration: B&W images throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 146.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 388g

Pages: 272

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Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction V (formerly Eve Ensler)

About the Author

V (formerly Eve Ensler) is a Tony Award–winning playwright, author, performer, and activist. Her international phenomenon The Vagina Monologues has been published in 48 languages and performed in more than 140 countries. She is the author of The Apology, the NYT bestseller I Am an Emotional Creature, the highly praised In the Body of the World, and many more. She is the founder of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, and One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries. She is a co-founder of the City of Joy, a revolutionary center for women survivors of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, along with Christine Schuler Deschryver and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege. She is one of Newsweek’s “150 Women Who Changed the World” and the Guardian’s “100 Most Influential Women.” She lives in New York.