The Reactor

{"ID":5654613,"post_title":"The Reactor","title":"The Reactor","post_content":"'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 BhuttoI 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.","image":"https:\/\/images.thalia.media\/00\/-\/70e5af7d95b143b7a84a2f6faebe0efd\/the-reactor-mp3-nick-blackburn.jpeg","url":"https:\/\/www.vergleiche.ch\/product\/the-reactor\/","min_price":32.9,"low_price_merchant_id":2294,"deeplink":"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/pclick.php?p=40697651161&a=401125&m=13971&pref1=9780571376520","ean":9780571376520,"brand":"Faber & Faber"}