{"product_id":"the-women-i-love-9781250858771","title":"The Women I Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative and bracing send-up of modern masculinity from the author of \u003ci\u003eClass\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Purity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarcello, an editor and a poet, is on the brink of his forties. Like everyone in his life, including his sister-in-law, he's writing a novel. This novel. This novel will be about women. Love. Growing older. Maybe even taking responsibility. But unfortunately for Marcello, the women in his life resist definition. They flit and flicker constantly between archetype and actuality: sirens and saviors, subordinates and savants, vixens and villains. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo Marcello cannot write plainly about love. Instead, he tries to write about the complexities of his many relationships: Eleonora, the junior editor, his former protégé and sometime lover; Barbara, his claustrophobic girlfriend; Irene, his estranged gay sister; and his elegant mother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFresh, frank, and painfully cool, Francesco Pacifico's \u003ci\u003eThe Women I Love\u003c\/i\u003e dives nakedly into gender, sex, and power. Set in a vivid and alcoholic Italy, it acknowledges and subverts the narrow ways canonical male writers gaze at, and somehow fail to see, women--illuminating the possibility of equity between people in love, in bed, in work, and in life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/06\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250858771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288","brand":"Francesco Pacifico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42496125173941,"sku":"9781250858771","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7e39c9eb-e022-4137-b269-421f49e73d4b.jpg?v=1667921201","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-women-i-love-9781250858771","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}