This Is All - The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn

Aidan Chambers

Amulet Books

2006

808 páginas

1d 2h 56m

ISBN-12: 978081097060

Nineteen-year-old Cornelia Keen sets out to write her life for her unborn daughter. She adapts the form of the pillow book, a collection of notebooks used to record "impressions, daily events, poems, letters, stories, ideas" and much more. What emerges is a portrait of an extraordinary girl, who writes frankly of love, sex, poetry, nature, faith, and of herself in the world. Her thoughts range wildely: on Shakespeare and breasts, periods and piano playing, friendship and trees, consciouness and sleep, and much more besides. As she writes of Willian Blacklin, the boy she chooses as her first lover, or Julie, the teacher who encourages her spiritual life, Cordelia maddens, fascinates, and ultimately seduces the reader.