Black and Blue

Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel Proust are inspirations for and subjects of Carol Mavor''s exquisite, image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and to comprehend the incomprehensible. At the book''s heart are one bo...