Yoga

Praise for Yoga

"Fascinating . . . Funny . . . Carr?re's work revolves around a practice of extreme--deranged, even--candor . . . I would gladly read a hundred pages of Carr?re scrutinizing the 'huge caverns' of his nostrils, lingering on the way that air prickles and tingles against their walls."
--Molly Young, The New York Times Book Review

"A devastating portrait . . . [Carr?re's] singular, ever-expanding work, in which one pain need never obscure another, in which truths and half-truths are held not in opposition but in delicate, precarious balance, is an answer in itself."
--Sam Byers, The Guardian

"[Yoga] is a tour de force."
--Sarah Richmond, The Times Literary Supplement

"Carr?re remains a fascinating character on the page, and his lithe confessional writing will resonate with longtime fans. The result is another marvelous creation from Carr?re's boundless imagination."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Vivid . . . an intimate chronicle punctuated by loss, desperation, and trauma . . . a probing memoir."
--Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Emmanuel Carr?re

"Carr?re has managed to write one masterpiece after another . . . He is widely understood as France's greatest writer of nonfiction."
--Wyatt Mason, The New York Times Magazine

"Carr?re is masterly both at singling out the telling detail and at grasping and conveying his subject as a whole . . . What is most compelling about his work is the quality of his mind, of his thinking. Of the scourging pressure of his need to understand."
--Robert Gottlieb, The New York Times Book Review

"Carr?re has become celebrated for his propulsive, original, free-ranging narratives, which frequently mix memoir, biography, and fiction . . . He is such engrossing and charming company--witty, restless, intellectually bold, confessional, shame-proof."
--James Wood, The New Yorker

"Emmanuel Carr?re is known for the way he bends and breaks genres . . . The core of Mr. Carr?re's talent is precisely that he brings readers into sympathetic contact with others, powerful and powerless, insiders and outsiders."
--The Economist (UK)

"The most exciting living writer."
--Karl Ove Knausgaard