Bibliograph

So many Olympic exertions, Anelise Chen

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Label

So many Olympic exertions, Anelise Chen

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

So many Olympic exertions

Oclc number

992082265

Responsibility statement

Anelise Chen

Summary

Blending elements of memoir and sports writing, Anelise Chen's debut novel is an experimental work that perhaps most resembles what the ancient Greeks called hyponemata, or "notes to the self," in the form of observations, reminders and self-exhortations. Taken together, these notes 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 answering. When Chen hears news that her brilliant friend from college has committed suicide, she is thrown into a fugue of fear and doubt. Through anecdotes and close readings of moments in the sometimes harrowing world of sports, the novel questions the validity of our current narratives of success

Target audience

adult

Creator