{"product_id":"9781770561489","title":"Mauve Desert","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1987, Nicole Brossard's classic novel returns to Coach House in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, \u003cem\u003eMauve Desert\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read for readers and writers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is both a single novel and three separate novels in one. In the first, \u003cem\u003eMauve Desert\u003c\/em\u003e, fifteen-year-old Mélanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor chasing fear and desire, cutting loose from her mother and her mother's lover, Lorna, in their roadside Mauve Motel. In the second book, Maudes Laures reads \u003cem\u003eMauve Desert\u003c\/em\u003e, becomes obsessed with it, and embarks on an extraordinary quest for its mysterious author, characters and meaning. The third book - \u003cem\u003eMauve, the horizon\u003c\/em\u003e - is Laures's eventual translation of \u003cem\u003eMauve Desert\u003c\/em\u003e. Like all good translations, it is both the same and revealingly different from the original.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNicole Brossard's writing is agile and inventive; from moment to moment gripping, exhilarating and erotic. Her language drifts and swells like sand dunes in a desert, cresting and accumulating into a landscape that shifts like wind and words; she translates the practice of translation, the pulse of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'With the appearance of \u003cem\u003eMauve Desert\u003c\/em\u003e ... Nicole Brossard reinforces her claim to be ranked among the few truly radical text-makers in North America.' - \u003cem\u003eThe Toronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'In \u003cem\u003eMauve Desert\u003c\/em\u003e, Nicole Brossard writes from the point of impact; from the collision between languages, between forms and ideas, between cultures and genders. Her effects too are the effects of collisions: brilliant sparks and white hot fragments, alarm and the possibility of danger, and a momentary light in which we glimpse the bizarrely distorted faces of strangers, which turn out after all to have been our own.' - Margaret Atwood\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183083569392,"sku":"9781770561489","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770561489_p0.jpg?v=1763706581","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770561489","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}