{"product_id":"these-lowly-objects-9781644672266","title":"These Lowly Objects","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn These Lowly Objects, Cate McGowan has fashioned one of \u003cbr\u003e the great fictional characters of our time in Jules Lalande, \u003cbr\u003e Dadaist extraordinaire. From his Dickensian childhood \u003cbr\u003e alongside a second cousin (and later, wife), Isobel, McGowan \u003cbr\u003e tracks--in rich, rigorous prose--the Zelig-like Lalande's \u003cbr\u003e wanderings through fin de si cle Paris as he rubs elbows with \u003cbr\u003e Degas and C zanne, fights in World War I, lands in New York \u003cbr\u003e with Breton, becomes a professional boxer, hangs out with \u003cbr\u003e Duchamp, and disappears in Cuba--or does he? Enter this \u003cbr\u003e remarkably imagined, enchanted world and discover the \u003cbr\u003e many delights of McGowan's marvelous creation.\u003cbr\u003e --Robin Lippincott, author of Blue Territory: \u003cbr\u003e A Meditation on the Life and Art of Joan Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e Lyrical, stunning, and deeply strange, Cate McGowan's novel \u003cbr\u003e concerns a shape-shifting protagonist, Jules Lalande. Lalande \u003cbr\u003e disappeared years ago: various people--his estranged wife \u003cbr\u003e Isobel Wright, journalist Titus Pidgeon, and the people \u003cbr\u003e Pidgeon interviews, including historical figures like Andre \u003cbr\u003e Breton and Marcel Duchamp--chase his scent. McGowan's \u003cbr\u003e luminous novel tracks their efforts to conjure this enigmatic \u003cbr\u003e poet-painter-performance artist-thief-con man-duke-trauma \u003cbr\u003e victim-killer-healer. Twisty and original, These Lowly Objects\u003cbr\u003e is fundamentally about self-hood, its precariousness and \u003cbr\u003e perishability, and its surprising capacity for resurrection.\u003cbr\u003e --Kim Magowan, author of Undoing and The \u003cbr\u003e Light Source\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gold Wake Press Collective\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644672266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.67d","brand":"Kate McGowan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36664527454364,"sku":"9781644672266","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8488da9b-db44-484c-bc52-ff9accf3feea.jpg?v=1603906917","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/these-lowly-objects-9781644672266","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}