{"product_id":"intimacy-a-novel-9781573660549","title":"Intimacy: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this melancholy novel about a man on the brink of suicide, Stanley Crawford allows readers to question what it really means to be close to a person. \u003cem\u003eIntimacy\u003c\/em\u003e follows an unnamed narrator planning his own death. His preparations become a trigger and occasion for him to revisit key moments in his life and his material possessions, which are the solid artifacts from his life’s journey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs sparrows in flight might form a single arrow, the life of the narrator comes into focus as a collage of fleeting events and images. Readers gain insights into tiny moments that slowly build into a picture of a man who seems to have very little, aside from material possessions, to lose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe narrative pulls the reader along a trail of digressions—about running shoes, about the symbolism of rings—that lead down a proverbial rabbit hole until we realize the narrator’s intentions. Despite our lack of concrete knowledge about the narrator’s life, he allows us to share his thought processes: how every thought leads to the next, how memories seep upward when he picks up a particular T-shirt, or when he glimpses his car keys. And alongside our growing understanding of the narrator comes a recognition of our own thought processes: how we, like him, relate to our bodies; how we, too, cannot break away from the constant motion of our thoughts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntimacy\u003c\/em\u003e is a brief, intense novel charged with the heightened sense of closeness that comes from watching a man’s last hours. It illuminates how brief snapshots of memory can trace the outline of an entire life.","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041444233559,"sku":"9781573660549","price":19.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781573660549.jpg?v=1750950306","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/intimacy-a-novel-9781573660549","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}