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Long listed for the 2019 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
Life in Rome during the 1950s furnished the material for his first two novels
Softness: A Meditation on Knitting - Jean Oberlander Agostino Nirodh Fortini and othersUnravelling the semantics of the ugly jumper, the ratty cardigan and the squishy mittens. Softness is a poetic reflection on hand knitting and the neglected objects that give us nourishment. A straggly jumper, shrunken in a hot wash. A frayed sleeve, mended with different wool. A garish sweater, coffee stained but decidedly unwashed, sent by a loved one to withstand the cold winters. Punctuated by short key texts from textile studies and feminist
