{"product_id":"lost-words-9781764520362","title":"Lost Words","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLost Words\u003c\/em\u003e is an elegant and deeply personal collection of prose pieces by Xavier Hennekinne, a French-born, Australian-based writer, accompanied by original prints and drawings by artist Phil Day. Published by Gazebo Books in 2019, the book takes its epigraph from Gaston Bachelard - \"Only through reverie can unusual images be communicated\" - and holds true to that spirit throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pieces range freely across film, literature, memory, and language: a chance encounter with Romy Schneider's daughter in a Paris theatre; reflections on Mishima's suicide at forty-five; the fear that videogames are colonising a child's imagination; memories of a French Catholic school and the lies told to a dismayed teacher; the faces of Spanish actresses hidden under a mattress. Running through everything is the narrator's lifelong obsession with cinema - particularly European art-house film - and the way images from the screen fuse inseparably with intimate memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterwoven with Phil Day's striking lithographs and drypoint engravings, \u003cem\u003eLost Words\u003c\/em\u003e is a book as much to look at as to read. Steeped in European literary and cinematic culture yet rooted in an Australian present, it is a meditation on expatriate identity, the mysteries of resemblance, the failures and unexpected gifts of language, and the interior life of a reader and writer for whom reverie is both vocation and refuge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gazebo Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781764520362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.34d","brand":"Xavier Hennekinne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715619516597,"sku":"9781764520362","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lost-words-9781764520362","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}