{"product_id":"9781772140248","title":"Hysteric","description":"\u003cp\u003eReLit Long Shortlist, 2015\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner, Type Books Award\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this daring act of self-examination and confession, the late novelist Nelly Arcan explores the tortured end of a love affair. All the wrong signals were there from the start, but still, she could not help falling. More than a portrait of an affair gone wrong, \u003ci\u003eHysteric\u003c\/i\u003e is a chronicle of life among the twenty- and thirty-somethings, a life structured by text messages, missed cell phone calls, the latest DJs and Internet porn. When the writer’s aunt read her tarot cards, no predictions for her future ever appeared. This tale, an astounding feat of literary realism, shares the story of a woman who loses her identity in a man in hopes of finding love. Told in the same voice that made her first novel \u003ci\u003eWhore\u003c\/i\u003e an international success, Nelly Arcan manages to answer the challenges she set down for herself in her previous books.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eHysteric\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"She writes from a place that is both deeply embodied and highly intellectual—if someone’s womb really did end up on their brain, and that person then wrote a book, it might read something like \u003ci\u003eHysteric\u003c\/i\u003e. English readers are lucky to have access to more of Arcan’s brains and guts, and this translation is hopefully a herald of growing appreciation for a uniquely talented and brutally brave writer.\" (\u003ci\u003eMontreal Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eHysteric\u003c\/i\u003e is a raw stroke of wild love that explores desire and memory, fear and love, a novel that leaves the lights on for its readers, hurts as much as it haunts, and brings a much-needed philosophy to the genre of urban literary fiction.” (\u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Straight\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eTelegraph Journal\u003c\/i\u003e's Most Anticipated Books of 2014\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePraise for Nelly Arcan: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"... With the publication of \u003ci\u003eBreakneck\u003c\/i\u003e this month (\u003ci\u003eA Ciel ouvert\u003c\/i\u003e, 2007), the small Canadian publisher Anvil Press concludes its project of publishing all of Arcan's novels in translation. ... Fantastically intelligent, always trying to second-guess how a woman should be, Arcan finds death the only answer to her predicament. In style and emotion—and honesty—her work is a much closer cousin to Edouard Leve's \u003ci\u003eSuicide\u003c\/i\u003e than to the archness of Belle de Jour or Catherine Millet. The best way to absorb Arcan's work is to read it in chronological order, and then to lament that the titles of her work—\u003ci\u003eWhore, Hysteric, Breakneck, Exit\u003c\/i\u003e—so succinctly and poignantly summarize the short life and hard-won philosophy of this exceptional writer.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anvil Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131187511536,"sku":"9781772140248","price":11.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781772140248_p0.jpg?v=1763708227","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781772140248","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}