{"product_id":"9781941088593","title":"The Suicide of Claire Bishop","description":"\u003cbr\u003eGreenwich Village, 1959. Claire Bishop sits for a portrait—a gift from her husband—only to discover that what the artist has actually depicted is Claire’s suicide. Haunted by the painting, Claire is forced to redefine herself within a failing marriage and a family history of madness. Shifting ahead to 2004, we meet West, a young man with schizophrenia obsessed with a painting he encounters in a gallery: a mysterious image of a woman’s suicide. Convinced it was painted by his ex-girlfriend, West constructs an elaborate delusion involving time-travel, Hasidism, art-theft, and the terrifying power of representation. When the two characters finally meet, in the present, delusions are shattered and lives are forever changed.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Suicide of Claire Bishop\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling debut, evocative of Michael Cunningham's \u003ci\u003eThe Hours\u003c\/i\u003e (and Virginia Woolf's classic \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e), as well as Donna Tartt's bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Goldfinch\u003c\/i\u003e. With high stakes that reach across American history, Carmiel Banasky effortlessly juggles balls of madness, art theft, and Time itself, holding the reader in a thrall of language and personal consequences. Daring, sexy, emotional, \u003ci\u003eThe Suicide of Claire Bishop\u003c\/i\u003e heralds Banasky as an important new talent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dzanc Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044332978416,"sku":"9781941088593","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781941088593_p0.jpg?v=1763668409","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781941088593","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}