{"product_id":"9781573668170","title":"Passes Through","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fictional meditation on time and experience—part journal, part meditation, part dreamscape\u003c\/b\u003e   In language that is frank and uncompromising, Rob Stephenson’s debut novel, \u003ci\u003ePasses Through\u003c\/i\u003e, moves forward in a rare and daring manner. Part journal, part meditation on aesthetics, part dreamscape, \u003ci\u003ePasses Through\u003c\/i\u003e investigates experience, identity, beauty, and sexuality, while provocatively complicating such distinctions as writing versus revision and imagination versus observation. It is a narrative of and about language, a narrative of and about narrative.    Can we truly experience the present, the novel asks? No, we cannot, \u003ci\u003ePasses Through\u003c\/i\u003e suggests again and again. Stephenson throws to the wayside all of the traditional elements of fiction and in doing so composes a sort of musical composition of obsessive consciousness and selfhood’s slippage. This haunting novel never takes the easy route and baffles and confounds on its way toward a stunning yet inevitable finale.","brand":"University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128855019760,"sku":"9781573668170","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781573668170_p0.jpg?v=1763797638","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781573668170","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}