Ebook {Epub PDF} The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch

Set in a dystopian future in which Earth has been rendered all but uninhabitable, the action of American author Lidia Yuknavitch’s work of speculative fiction The Book of Joan () takes place primarily aboard a space station called CIEL. There an artist, Christine Pizan, and her friend Trinculo join forces with an Earth-based resistance movement lead by a young woman with special powers, Joan of Dirt. The Book of Joan is graffiti in white ink. It is where experimentalism meets the dirty earth and gets saved.” -- Vanessa Veselka, author of Zazen “Lidia Yuknavitch’s new book has left me throttled and close to speechless. Speculative doesn’t begin to describe this /5(). Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the National Bestselling novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader's Choice Award, and the novel Dora: A Headcase, Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of 3/5.

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Not so with Lidia Yuknavitch’s brilliant and incendiary new novel, which speaks to the reader in raw, boldly honest terms. “The Book of Joan” has the same unflinching quality as earlier. Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer who, with each ever more triumphant book, creates a new language with which she writes the audacious stories only she can tell. The Book of Joan is a raucous celebration, a searing condemnation, and fiercely imaginative retelling of Joan of Arc's transcendent life. Amber Tamblyn, author of Dark Sparkler. Preview — The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch. The Book of Joan Quotes Showing of “We are what happens when the seemingly unthinkable celebrity rises to power. Our existence makes my eyes hurt.”. ― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan. 9 likes.