{"product_id":"the-second-substance-9781552454398","title":"The Second Substance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSquatters at a rural gas station try to find freedom and build something new on the ashes of our petrocivilization in this sensual novel. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA community of outsiders takes over an abandoned gas station. They spend their days ripping up asphalt, drinking beer and eating hot dogs, and wandering through woods and towns in search of new ways of living. People come and go: a charismatic landscaper, Italian anarchists, a policewoman, travellers. A teenager drifts into homelessness. And The Girl With No Name keeps a journal of her attempts to meet new people and sleep with them, sex that is \"not a sideline\" but the motivating force in a story she is struggling to understand.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeighbors grow hostile. An investigation threatens the community. Tension builds between the surface violence of \"normal life\" and the attempt of these outsiders to experience freedom and build something new on the ashes of our oil-addicted society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a character borrowed from Agnès Varda's \u003ci\u003eVagabond\u003c\/i\u003e and inspiration taken from Anne Boyer's writings, Anne Lardeux's highly original debut assembles elements of poetry, film, and visual arts into an exuberant choral novel, an ode to the daughters of fire and to the poetry of the body. Often funny, sometimes raunchy, consistently surprising, never flinching, \u003ci\u003eThe Second Substance\u003c\/i\u003e heralds an important new voice in Quebec literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A revolutionary diary that parses the lines of sex and power, in language that pushes itself around on the page like paint. With echoes of Emma Goldman's if I can't dance, Lardeux's revolution has fucking at its core. The Second Substance is fleshy, cinematic, intuitive.\" -Tamara Faith Berger, author of \u003cem\u003eQueen Solomon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781552454398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152","brand":"Anne Lardeux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42114558984373,"sku":"9781552454398","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_eda403f5-d9f8-41a7-b74b-4a4cd9473981.jpg?v=1652151984","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-second-substance-9781552454398","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}