{"product_id":"9781551526041","title":"Mouthquake","description":"\u003cp\u003eMontreal, 1979. A boy's speech starts to fracture along with the cement of le Stade olympique. Do they share a fault line? Daniel Allen Cox's unconventional fourth novel tells the story of a boy with a stutter who grows up and uses sound to remember the past. A coming-of-age tale that telescopes through time like an amnesiac memoir, \u003ci\u003eMouthquake\u003c\/i\u003e finds its strange beat in subliminal messages hidden in skipping records, in the stutters of celebrities, and in the wisdom of The Grand Antonio, a suspicious mystic who helps the narrator unlock the secret to his speech. This is a loudly exclaimed book of innuendo, rumours, and the tangled barbs of repressed memory that asks: How do you handle a troubling past event that behaves like a barely audible whisper?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with a poetic bravado and in a structure that mimics a stutter, the elegiac \u003ci\u003eMouthquake\u003c\/i\u003e is speech therapy for the bent: the signal is perverted and the sounds are thrilling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes an afterword by Sarah Schulman, author of Rat Bohemia and The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Allen Cox \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eShuck, Krakow Melt \u003c\/i\u003e(both Lambda Award finalists), and \u003ci\u003eBasement of Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e. He also co-wrote Bruce LaBruce's film \u003ci\u003eGerontophilia\u003c\/i\u003e, released in the US in 2015.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049191981296,"sku":"9781551526041","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781551526041_p0.jpg?v=1763757114","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781551526041","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}