{"product_id":"sprawl-paperback","title":"Sprawl - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDanielle Dutton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRenee Gladman\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"SPRAWL in fact does not sprawl at all; rather, it radiates with control and fresh, strange reflection.\" --\u003cem\u003eBookforum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reads as if Gertrude Stein channeled Alice B. Toklas writing an Arcades Project set in contemporary suburbia.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Danielle Dutton's \u003cem\u003eSPRAWL\u003c\/em\u003e first broke upon the world in 2010, critics likened it to collage, a poetics of the suburbs, a literal unpacking of et cetera. This updated edition, with a new afterword by Renee Gladman, reopens the space of SPRAWL's \"fierce, careful composition\"--as \u003cem\u003eBookforum\u003c\/em\u003e wrote--\"which changes the ordinary into the wonderful and odd.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eToday I fell asleep in the tall grass near the old train station. It was a complete picture. A fashionable park. Yet the picture had its sordid and selfish aspect. I can't seem to say what I mean, Mrs. Barbauld, but with some urgency I mean to inform you what a triumph the big city has become. I am a secular individual but even I can feel the shift in the horizon utterly alien to the constitution of things, the habitual. Sincerely, etc. I move in shade on the edge of a parking lot under walnut trees in the early morning around the edge of a curve in an accidental manner. I walk the sidewalk and ripple the surface of it. From this condition I have a view of the world.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDanielle Dutton \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eMargaret the First, SPRAWL\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAttempts at a Life\u003c\/em\u003e. Her writing has also appeared or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review, Harper's, The White Review, Fence, BOMB\u003c\/em\u003e, and others. She is on the faculty of the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis and is co-founder and editor of the feminist press Dorothy, a publishing project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDanielle Dutton is the author of \u003cem\u003eMargaret the First\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSPRAWL\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003e Attempts at a Life\u003c\/em\u003e. Her writing has also appeared or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHarper's\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFence\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBOMB\u003c\/em\u003e, and others. She is on the faculty of the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis and is co-founder and editor of the feminist press Dorothy, a publishing project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 04, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700485328959,"sku":"9781940696775","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1a2281ebf0368424526d5836a75976d5.webp?v=1765016931","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/sprawl-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}