{"product_id":"american-romances-9780872864986","title":"American Romances","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything and nothing is sacred in Rebecca Brown''s essays. Tongue, word, thought, and intellect all conspire in a free language love of living history, divination, sex, solitude and amusement. She is America''s only real rock ''n'' roll schoolteacher. Lessons layered with profundity and protracted parallels. Where old world religion, Gertrude Stein and Oreo cookies co-exist in an actual and mystic world of wonder.—\u003cstrong\u003eThurston Moore\u003c\/strong\u003e, Sonic Youth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Rebecca Brown''s talent for prose were any tighter, it would be a lyric—to a pop standard. An homage—a menage—to America, exposing what''s laid bare in a comic tragic redux. I laughed till it hurt.—\u003cstrong\u003eVan Dyke Parks\u003c\/strong\u003e, Composer\/Arranger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone who can get from the Eucharist, to a Necco Wafer, to the goo beween the Oreo wafers, to the Inquisition, to the goo between the legs of excited young women is a distant sibling of mine. She can dash and she can drift and she is not\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rebecca Brown's newest collection of short fiction pulses with desires that cannot be attained--knowledge, understanding, quiescence, and love. . . . The straightforward prose style belies Brown's penchant for brilliant narrative, which at any moment can turn from the gentle and intimate to the violent and bizarre.\" - Utne Reader \"She is one of the few truly original modern lesbian writers, one who constantly pushes both her own boundaries and those of her readers.\" - San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528290345303,"sku":"9780872864986","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780872864986.jpg?v=1731871087","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-romances-9780872864986","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}