{"product_id":"9780995538610","title":"Letters to the Cultural Rehabilitation of the Unemployed","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book is in two parts. The first part is composed of 17 ‘love’ letters written by an unemployed man and addressed to a vague entity – the \u003cem\u003eCultural Rehabilitation\u003c\/em\u003e. This Cultural Rehabilitation sometimes assumes the abstract and anonymous form of the institution. At other times, it is a female public official with whom the man establishes an erotic understanding. The themes of the letters seem very vague it is unclear if the letters were ever really exchanged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does the sender wish to communicate? He sometimes writes about mental health, or love and disappointment, but also about work and his fragile social identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second part is entitled \u003cem\u003eCircumstances of the Sentence \u003c\/em\u003eand includes 15 prose passages representing unpredictable little worlds, where sentences can be delirious and irrational, abandoning the world of ordinary syntax and evoking unexpected aspects of reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book has been translated from Italian into English by Sara Elena Rossetti.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrea Inglese won a prize in The 2017 Third Edition Bridge Book Award for his novel, \u003cem\u003eParigi è un desiderio,\u003c\/em\u003e published by Ponte alle Grazie in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patrician Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49997669597424,"sku":"9780995538610","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780995538610","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}