Corpsing - My Body and Other Horror Shows
Author(s): Sophie White
Essay | Gender & Sexuality | Tramp Press
Nora Ephron meets Bram Stoker in Sophie White's vivid and ambitious literary non-fiction collection. White asks uncomfortable questions about the lived reality of womanhood in the 21st century, and the fear that must be internalised in order to find your path through it. White balances vivid storytelling with sharp-witted observations about the horrors of grief, mental illness, and the casual and sometimes hilarious cruelty of life.
I tell her about the two wasted days I spent trying to imagine how decomposed his body was, only to remember that we had cremated him, his body was no more. She turned back to me and took my wrist.
‘Well you know he’s here …’
I felt the familiar weariness I always get when confronted with other people’s spirituality, but then she finished,
‘ … in my house.’In this vivid and ambitious collection, Sophie White is a uniquely articulate
witness to the horrors of grief, addiction, mental illness, and the casual and
sometimes hilarious cruelty of life.
Praise for Corpsing:
‘An essential collection of flaying honesty and beauty in every perfectly formed sentence. It will stay with me for a very long time.’ – LOUISE O’NEILL
‘Provocative and profound, full of brutal truths and unexpected humour.’ – SARA BAUME
‘Brilliant. A raw feast of insight into the grotesque and joyous reality of being, particularly in a female body, from pregnancy, blood cravings, to the mundane horror of grief. White reminds us living is a phenomenon. I read this like I was sucking marrow from a bone.’ – CAELAINN HOGAN
‘Sophie White leads us by the hand through a purgatorio of grief, mental illness, addiction and pandemic. Her experience and wisdom speak to this strange time.’ – MIKE MCCORMACK
Product Information
Sophie White is a writer and podcaster from Dublin. Her first book two books, Recipes for a Nervous Breakdown (Gill 2016) and Filter This (Hachette, 2019) have been bestsellers and award nominees. Her third, Unfiltered (Hachette, 2020) was described by Marian Keyes as 'such fun - gas, clever stuff', and described by White's mother as 'very good, of its type.' Sophie writes regularly for various Irish publications including a weekly column The Domestic for the Sunday Independent LIFE magazine, and has been nominated three times for Journalist of the Year at the Irish Magazine Awards. Sophie has also dabbled in stand-up, and created the mini-series 'Recipes For Actual Real Life' commissioned by RTE. She is co-host of the chart-topping podcasts, Mother Of Pod (comedy, 300,000 downloads) and The Creep Dive (comedy, 1 million downloads). She lives in Dublin with her husband and three sons.
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- : Sophie White
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- : English
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