{"product_id":"disintegration-in-four-parts-paperback","title":"Disintegration in Four Parts - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean Marc Ah-Sen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEmily Anglin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDevon Code\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFour writers, four different perspectives on the problematic notion of purity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAll purity is created by resemblance and disavowal. With this sentence as a starting point, four authors each write a novella considering the concept of purity, all from astonishingly different angles. Jean Marc Ah-Sen writes about love blooming between two writers belonging to feuding literary movements. Emily Anglin explores an architect's search for her twin at a rural historic house. Devon Code documents the Wittgensteinian upheavals of the last days of an elderly woman. And Lee Henderson imagines Dada artist Kurt Schwitters finding unlikely inspiration in a Second World War internment camp in northern Norway.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWildly different in style and subject matter, these four virtuoso pieces give us a 360-degree view of a philosophical theme that has never felt so urgent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Despite the disparity of their subject matter - a Nazi-evading Dadaist detained in Norway, urban and familial estrangements, complicated love amid the avant-garde, the vicissitudes of old age - these brilliantly inventive, delightfully strange stories cling together like four unlikely soulmates, unified by art's pursuit of coherence through life's various disintegrations.\" --Pasha Malla, author of \u003ci\u003eKill the Mall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699623661631,"sku":"9781552454244","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/72545b54d1b7ec3850263c92c579585b.webp?v=1765013936","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/disintegration-in-four-parts-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}