{"product_id":"9780676972740","title":"Plainwater","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE • From Anne Carson, the award-winning Canadian author of \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of Red\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a landmark collection that stretches the boundaries of genre, pressing the traditional form of the essay into new service. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn succinct and astonishingly beautiful prose and verse, Anne Carson exposes the fragile differences between \"I\" and \"you,\" and between the modern and the classical, in a voice that shatters convention with its integrity and clarity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarson envisions a present-day interview with a 7th-century BC poet; lectures on subjects as diverse as hedonism and Ovid; imagines a 15th-century painter's muse at a phenomenology conference in Italy; and in the final section presents a poetic travelogue of a woman's life that beautifully contemplates the difference between the sexes. \u003ci\u003ePlainwater\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning collection.","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback B102","offer_id":51486807884015,"sku":"9780676972740","price":26.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0559\/3877\/7237\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ca4f767a-2b7d-411e-86d4-1f04b92afce7.jpg?v=1794344332","url":"https:\/\/www.entershinebookshop.ca\/products\/9780676972740","provider":"Entershine Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}