Truly sad and beautiful, it's a raw meditation on falling passionately in love with a colour.' * Big Issue * 'What could be more invented than a life story that reads like a novel? Bluets doesn't invent that way: its inventions are wilder, wiser (and more true) than that. Beautiful.' - Tom Graham * Financial Times * 'A real short-sharp punch in the heart. In 240 loosely linked fragments she moves between memoir and analysis, from spiritual inquiry to erotic obsession. Nelson takes a Wittgensteinian form and fills it with feeling. There is wisdom and beauty in this short work.' - Fiona Wilson * The Times * 'A luminous meditation on the author's love for a single colour that displaces itself onto the grief prompted by the end of a relationship and the serious injury of a friend.' - Jenny Hendrix * Times Literary Supplement * 'Arty, smart and gorgeous meditation on the color blue.' * Time Out * 'Bluets is a slim but intense volume dedicated to the colour blue, and to feeling blue. looks sideways at her heartbreak, allowing for moments of piercing clarity as feelings come into focus. In her dark excavation of grief, she has collected messages of great wisdom and powerful beauty.' - Gavin Francis * Guardian * 'A gorgeous, eddying read.' - Claire-Louise Bennett 'Nelson. ' - Olivia Laing ' candour, also evident in The Argonauts, gives Bluets a turbo-charged vitality, precision and authenticity that frees her to reflect on the way female desire is too often sidelined or ignored. I did not actually read Bluets, I think - I just let it hit me.' - Anne Enright 'Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation. Her words come, as though from a great distance, and strike incredibly close. She's so much better than anything I've read for a long, long time.' - Karl Ove Knausgaard 'I remember where I was when I read each of Maggie Nelson's books in the same way I remember a place where I heard important news.

She's an amazing writer.' - Lorde * Irish Times * 'Maggie Nelson.

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