The Reactor

A Book about Grief and Repair

Nick Blackburn

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Faber & Faber
21 March 2023

Biography: arts & entertainment; Memoirs; Popular culture; Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama); Coping with death & bereavement

'One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.' - Helen Macdonald 'Beautiful, strange and completely compelling.' -Olivia Laing

'I read it with awe and sorrow.' -Fatima Bhutto

I tore the arse of my pyjamas one morning, about a year before he died, and my father sewed it up perfect in a few minutes, just like that. I was looking at them this morning actually, his line of white stitches. It's beautiful really. They've held.

After the sudden death of his father, Nick Blackburn embarks on a singular, labyrinthine journey to understand his loss. How do you create an existence when all you can see is a void?

The Reactor is a memoir about absence and creative possibilities, assembled like the pieces of a puzzle. Through philosophy, music, fashion, psychology, art and film, Blackburn travels a vast panorama of ideas and characters to offer an entirely new exploration of grief. This is a book about looking for and finding chain reactions and human connection - a work of enduring fragmentary beauty.

By: Nick Blackburn
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 345g
ISBN: 9780571367757
ISBN 10: 0571367755
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 21 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nick Blackburn is a therapist who specialises in LGBTQ+ issues and completed a PhD in English Literature at Cambridge (on the use of quotation marks in Renaissance drama).

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The Reactor

A Book about Grief and Repair

Nick Blackburn

$24.99

Paperback

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