{"product_id":"9780983195603","title":"The Vicious Red Relic, Love: A Fabulist Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eFULL COLOR ILLUSTRATED EDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont color=\"red\"\u003eBook #3 in our \u003cb\u003eBlue Bustard Memoir Series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Best LGBT Book of 2012\" \u003cbr\u003e-Laurie Weeks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Anna Joy Springer fabulates a trauma memoir of losing her bipolar lover to AIDS and, in so doing, creates a unique literary form, one that ignores the often fraught line between truth and fiction in pursuit of something more elusive\" \u003cbr\u003e-American Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A powerful book of love, trauma, loss, and forgiveness.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Lambda Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A page turner...electric\" \u003cbr\u003e-Alice Notley, author of The Descent of Alette and Culture of One\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There is only one Anna Joy Springer. Only one. Her words take me from kitten to monster and back again in a way only she can do. I love this book.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Anna Joy Springer's The Vicious Red Relic, Love is a gnarly siren song of a book.... [O]nce read, it will live perfectly inside you forever.\" \u003cbr\u003e-HTMLGiant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This writing just turns me on. The blatantness. The naming. The pain of becoming and being revealed by way of the prurient requirements of our relations.\" \u003cbr\u003e-The Lit Pub\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With intelligence and heart she enlarges the things of which a novel is capable. How very lucky I am to have read it!\" \u003cbr\u003e-Carole Maso , author of AVA and Break Every Rule\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"My god, this book is beautiful... Each sentence is a journey.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Doug Rice, author of Between Appear and Disappear and Blood of Mugwump: A Tiresian Tale of Incest \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"She writes about sex, lust, passion, power so damn well, too damn well. She doesn't separate any of it. She keeps it close. Tight and scary.... I highly recommend this book.\" \u003cbr\u003e-The Collagist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jaded Ibis Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50080663863536,"sku":"9780983195603","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983195603","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}