Carol Mavor Reading Boyishly | All Books sku-764250960

Carol Mavor's Reading Boyishly is a hardcover in All Books, listed as sku-764250960. It explores mothers and sons, loss, longing, writing and photography through J. M. Barrie, Roland Barthes, Marcel Proust, D. W. Winnicott and the young photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue. Mavor considers boyish attachment to the mother and nostalgia, drawing on Barrie's Peter Pan, Barthes's life with or near his mother, Proust's writing, Winnicott's work with mothers and Lartigue's photographs. The book contains more than 200 images and examines how writing and photographs evoke a past that feels both comforting and painful.You may also like Carol Mavor Like a Lake Hardcover sku-428081118 All Books.