{"product_id":"homo-irrealis-9780374171872","title":"Homo Irrealis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFind Me \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCall Me by Your Name \u003c\/i\u003ereturns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrrealis moods are a category of verbal moods that \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eindicate that certain events have not happened, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003emay never happen, or should or must or are indeed \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003edesired to happen, but for which there is no indication \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethat they will ever happen. Irrealis moods \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eare also known as counterfactual moods and include \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe conditional, the subjunctive, the optative, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand the imperative-all best expressed in this \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ebook as the might-be and the might-have-been. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the great prose stylists of his generation, Andre Aciman returns to the essay form in \u003ci\u003eHomo Irrealis\u003c\/i\u003e to explore what time means to artists who cannot grasp life in the present. Irrealis moods are not about the present or the past or the future; they are\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525021180247,"sku":"9780374171872","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780374171872.jpg?v=1731858963","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/homo-irrealis-9780374171872","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}