{"product_id":"absolute-away-9781950539956","title":"Absolute Away","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith Lance Olsen's signature flair, \u003ci\u003eAbsolute Away\u003c\/i\u003e is an innovative narrative triptych, a story of one life reimagined. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first movement tells the story of Edie Metzger, a little Jewish girl who bit Hermann Göring's lip so hard it bled at a Nazi book-burning rally in 1933. In the second, in 1956, grown Edie is the passenger clinging to the backseat of the Oldsmobile 88 convertible driven by Jackson Pollock, moments before it plunges off the road. In the third, the narrative embarks into an ever-unspooling universe of Edies that might have lived--Edie's gender, past, and consciousness flying forever farther apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbsolute Away\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about travel in its largest sense--about the self, the past, the future, aging, ideas, relationships, our own mortal being(s) as transitive verbs, and how what and who we are connects to everything else.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dzanc Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950539956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lance Olsen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43705085886645,"sku":"9781950539956","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_280aeb6c-4978-412d-ba10-8eed03336c61.jpg?v=1709654250","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/absolute-away-9781950539956","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}