Beautiful Work: A Meditation on Pain

by Sharon Cameron

The stories one tells about pain are profound ones. Nothing is more legible than these stories. But something is left out of them. If there were no stories, there might be a moment of innocence. A moment before the burden of the stories and their perceived causes and consequences. For Anna, the narrator of Beautiful Work, there were moments when it was not accurate to say in relation to pain "because of this'" or "leading to that." They were...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082232508X
• ISBN13: 9780822325086
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 9.5"