You Must Change Your Life Paperback by Rachel Corbett

Product Details

• Publisher: WW Norton (2017-10-10)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780393354928
• Item Weight: 255.15 grams
• Dimensions: 20.93 x 13.97 x 1.91 cm

Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize

In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke—then a struggling poet in Germany—went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal and revered. Yet they fell into an instantaneous friendship. Transporting readers to early twentieth-century Paris, Rachel Corbett’s You Must Change Your Life is a vibrant portrait of Rilke and Rodin and their circle, revealing how deeply Rodin’s ideas about art and creativity influenced Rilke’s classic Letters to a Young Poet.

About the Author

Rachel Corbett is the author of You Must Change Your Life, which won the Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing. She is a features writer at New York magazine, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, and the Atlantic. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.