{"product_id":"9781564789785","title":"Permission","description":"Consisting of anonymous e-mail messages sent by the author to an acclaimed visual artist over the course of a year, \u003ci\u003ePermission\u003c\/i\u003e is the record of an experiment: an attempt to forge a connection with a stranger through the writing of a book, and thus a search for fellowship in solitude, as well as a testimony to the isolating effects and creative possibilities of the digital age. With reveries touching upon the insipid landscape of post-Cold War Poland, the elongated shadows of the Holocaust, and the narrator's \"safe passage\" to America, \u003ci\u003ePermission\u003c\/i\u003e not only updates the \"epistolary novel\" for our time by embracing the permissiveness we associate with digital communication, it opens up a new literary frontier.","brand":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149936509168,"sku":"9781564789785","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781564789785_p0.jpg?v=1763787520","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781564789785","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}