{"product_id":"9781101946848","title":"Float - Chapbook Package","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the renowned classicist and MacArthur Prize winner: a new collection that explores myth and memory, beauty and loss, all the while playing with—and pushing—the limits of language and form.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Carson consistently dazzles with her inventive, shape-shifting work and the vividness of her imagination. \u003ci\u003eFloat\u003c\/i\u003e reaches an even greater level of brilliance and surprise. Presented in an arrestingly original format—individual chapbooks that can be read in any order, and that float inside a transparent case—this collection conjures a mix of voices, time periods, and structures to explore what makes people, memories, and stories \"maddeningly attractive\" when observed in spaces that are suggestively in-between. \u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003eOne can begin with Carson contemplating Proust on a frozen Icelandic plain, or on the art-saturated streets of downtown New York City. Or journey to the peak of Mount Olympus, where Zeus ponders his own afterlife. Or find a chorus of Gertrude Steins performing an essay about falling—a piece that also unearths poignant memories of Carson's own father and great-uncle in rural Canada. And a poem called \"Wildly Constant\" piercingly explores the highs and lows of marriage and monogamy, distilled in a wife's waking up her husband from the darkness of night, and asking him to make them eggs for breakfast. \u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003eExquisite, heartbreaking, disarmingly funny, \u003ci\u003eFloat\u003c\/i\u003e kaleidoscopically illuminates the uncanny magic that comes with letting go of expectations and boundaries. It is Carson's most intellectually electrifying, emotionally engaging book to date.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Llc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021632520432,"sku":"9781101946848","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101946848_p0.jpg?v=1763689904","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101946848","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}