{"product_id":"9781937543709","title":"Without Anesthesia: a novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cfont color=\"red\"\u003e\"Vivid, grotesque and whip-smart.\"\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Rosalind Galt\u003cp\u003e\"Dear Tess, we cut you up today.\"So ends and begins the disturbing and provocative story of Tess, a third-year medical student whose compulsivedesireto feel her patients' pain leads her to destruct her own body bymethodsboth horrificand creative. In this highly original medical thriller,Tess'snarrative intersects with similarly obsessive characters, andthe distinctions between fiction and reality, between art and medicine, are called into question.\u003ci\u003eWithout Anesthesia\u003c\/i\u003espanstime periods and settings - from 1920's Hollywood to late 1990's New York- and culminatesin an ending that Alfred Hitchcock himself would approve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWithout Anesthesia\u003c\/i\u003e is an \u003cb\u003e\u003cfont color=\"red\"\u003eoriginal, sobering, and haunting\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e visceral contemplation of love, anguish, morbidity, obsession, knowing and unknowability, the seen and the felt. The intense desire for intimacy and commune on the part of characters and readers evokes riveting anticipation and obsessive page-turning anxiety.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Mariam Beevi Lam, author of\u003ci\u003ePrecariat Reckoning: Viet Nam, Post-Trauma, and Strategic Affect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Take \u003ci\u003eWithout Anesthesia\u003c\/i\u003e straight if you can; personally, I required a few shots of whiskey. But layered into this \u003cb\u003e\u003cfont color=\"red\"\u003ehallucinatory medical nightmare\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a moving meditation on obsession and loss. Equally adept at slow-burning suspense and blindside revelation, Navab will keep you transfixed, whether you're numbed or not.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Lisa Lutz, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Spellman Files\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Alex Award \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWithout Anesthesia\u003c\/i\u003e mobilizes an \u003cb\u003e\u003cfont color=\"red\"\u003eastoundingly rich and varied body of discourses\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - film theory, philosophies of aesthetics, medical sciences ranging from psychiatry to cardiology, even a history of excrement - deploying them in ways that transform our ideas about what the detective narrative is and what it might become in the future.... \u003ci\u003eWithout Anesthesia\u003c\/i\u003e gives us what has long been beloved about the most conventional, rewarding, and best of mystery novels: the desire to stay up late into the night and read so as to solve a puzzle that seems, at turns, within our grasp and then suddenly, once again, beyond it.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Nicole Rizzuto, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Georgetown University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWithout Anesthesia\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid, grotesque and whip-smart play with identity, where the simulations of appearance merge with the materialities of the body. Navab \u003cb\u003e\u003cfont color=\"red\"\u003eimmerses the reader in the rich vocabularies of medicine and cinema\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e; which is to say, the languages of the body's beauty and decay, our obsessions and repulsions, life and death.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Rosalind Galt, author of\u003ci\u003ePretty: Film and the Decorative Image\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003eThe New European Cinema: Redrawing the Map\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jaded Ibis Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049399107824,"sku":"9781937543709","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781937543709_p0.jpg?v=1763661906","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937543709","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}