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Fury: A Memoir (2010)

by Koren Zailckas(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0670022306 (ISBN13: 9780670022304)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: I read this book in a flash because I think the subject matter - repressed anger - is not commonly addressed or maybe I'm mistaken. Memoir is not really the right genre for this because it's more than that, Zailckas was trying to write a book on anger but suffered from a major creative impass. It was only until she realize she was repressing her own anger that she was able to retool her book into this strange concoction. She didn't even realize that she had severe problems with processing and expressing her own anger. Zailckas includes a great deal of her original book's anger research along with her personal experiences, creating a fascinating, emotionally compelling, deftly sociological book that was difficult to put down. I will most likely draw upon her observations an... mored experiences for years to come.
review 2: Definitely one of the most unusual memoirs I've ever read, in the sense that it's focused on a particular emotion... I don't think I've ever come across a book that so specifically confronts one woman's experience with/journey through anger. And I really liked it, even more than I expected to; it was one of those lucky finds at my local library. Occasionally the writing seemed a little show-offy to me--as if a particular word was chosen for its shock value/strangeness rather than because it was actually the right word--but mostly what I felt was appreciation, for the author's honesty and willingness to delve into such a powerful and challenging subject. less

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