{"product_id":"breakup-a-novel-in-essays-9781635900149","title":"Break.Up: A Novel in Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003eA novel in essays that locates a \"romance\" within the mesh of electronic communication.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo I didn't call you: instead I posted a new avatar of myself without my habitual dark glasses. I have learned: an image, any image, is a blind. All avatars give different information, illusions of contact called Telepresence, none of them the real thing. You texted me, 3 am, from some station ... As though it made any difference. But it did.\u003cbr\u003e--from \u003ci\u003eBreak.up\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this \"novel in essays,\" Joanna Walsh simultaneously flees and pursues an ambiguous partner in an affair conducted mostly online. Traversing Europe, she awaits emails and texts and PMs, awash in her dreams, offering succinct meditations on connection and communication. If Marguerite Duras situated the telephone as the twentieth century's preferred hopeless form of connection, Walsh pinpoints the nodal points of a \"romance\" within today's mesh of electronic communication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Deborah Levy observed recently, \"Joanna Walsh is fast becoming one of our most important writers.\" Her 2015 book \u003ci\u003eHotel\u003c\/i\u003e, an investigation of transience conducted through hotel reviews, was described by \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a slim, sharp meditation on hotels and desires.  Walsh is] funny throughout, even as she documents the dissolution of her marriage and the peculiar brand of alienation on offer in lavish places.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Joanna Walsh\u003cbr\u003e\"Walsh's writing has intellectual rigor and bags of formal bravery.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHotel\u003c\/i\u003e feels like something you want to endlessly quote: sharp, knowing, casually erudite ... there is power and an affecting gravitas in what Walsh does with detail.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSydney Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Walsh is a sublimely elegant writer ... artful and intelligent.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Semiotext(e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635900149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/19\/2018\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Joanna Walsh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43471187542197,"sku":"9781635900149","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1e2146d4-fb2d-4468-bb64-855fae6883b6.jpg?v=1704823899","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/breakup-a-novel-in-essays-9781635900149","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}