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Considered a national treasure in her native Canada, Sarah Polley is one of the most celebrated and admired actors/directors/producers in Hollywood. Yet, as this revealing collection of six essays proves, her life is rather unknown to many, even her biggest fans. In Run Towards The Danger (taken from the advice she was given by a doctor when she was struggling with the effects of severe concussion) Polley shares the misfortunes that she and her body have endured, sometimes at the hands of others. Going back and forth in time, each essay discusses trauma – from her stage fright, high-risk pregnancy and scoliosis – but perhaps the most impactful is her encounter with Jian Ghomeshi and her exploration of sexual assault. Don’t be put off if that all sounds too depressing, Polley’s writing is wonderful and insightful – just what you expect from such a talented figure.
Julie Vuong
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Run Towards the Danger Synopsis
"A visceral and incisive collection of six propulsive personal essays." -Vanity Fair
*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Named a Most-Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly, Lit Hub, and AV Club * New York Times Paperback Row*
From the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Women Talking and the acclaimed director and actor Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present
These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven't told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to carry.
In this extraordinary book, Sarah Polley explores what it is to live in one's body, in a constant state of becoming, learning, and changing. Each of these six essays captures a piece of Polley's life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now but was not then. As Polley writes, the past and present are in a "reciprocal pressure dance."
Polley contemplates stories from her own life ranging from stage fright to high-risk childbirth to endangerment and more. After struggling with the aftermath of a concussion, Polley met a specialist who gave her wholly new advice: to recover from a traumatic injury, she had to retrain her mind to strength by charging towards the very activities that triggered her symptoms. With riveting clarity, she shows the power of applying that same advice to other areas of her life in order to find a path forward, a way through. Rather than live in a protective crouch, she had to run towards the danger.
About This Edition
ISBN: |
9780593300350 |
Publication date: |
1st March 2022 |
Author: |
Sarah Polley |
Publisher: |
The Penguin Press an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group |
Format: |
Hardback |
Pagination: |
258 pages |
Primary Genre |
Biographies & Autobiographies
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