Bibliograph

So many Olympic exertions, Anelise Chen

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So many Olympic exertions, Anelise Chen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

So many Olympic exertions

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

992082265

Responsibility statement

Anelise Chen

Summary

"Blending elements of self-help, memoir, and sports writing, 'So Many Olympic Exertions' is an experimental novel that perhaps most resembles what the ancient Greeks called hypomnemata, or 'notes to the self.' Taken together, the observations, reminders, and self-exhortations that make up this novel constitute a personal handbook on 'how to live' or perhaps more urgently 'why to live,' a question the narrator, graduate student Athena Chen, desperately needs to answer. When Chen hears news that her brilliant friend from college has committed suicide, she is thrown into a fugue of fear and doubt. She begins to compile a collection of anecdotes and close readings of moments in the sometimes harrowing (i.e. bloody) world of sports, and in so doing, starts to question the validity and usefulness of our current narratives of success."--Back cover

Target audience

adult

Classification