{"product_id":"district-9781939663306","title":"District","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tony Duvert | S. C. Delaney | S. C. Delaney\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wakefield Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wakefield Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDistrict\u003c\/i\u003e describes, in ten vignettes, the sad, sordid and sinister aspects of a section of an unnamed French city, and the manners in which the ghostlike human entities that live and wither within it are molded, moved and absorbed by its spaces.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA noisy metro station, old tenements, buildings going up, along with the fixtures of French communal life: the open-air market, the public garden; the little shops and bars, the lively town square--the ugly and mundane, the coarse and unmentionable sit side by side with the occasionally burgeoning bit of beauty. With a sense of voyeuristic tension and queasy complicity, the reader is taken on an outcast's tour of city life--from construction site to metro, from bar to brothel--an analysis of communal living in the conditional tense from the perspective of the absolute exile. One of Duvert's last books, it is also one of his shortest: an unexpected return to the roving, fractured eye of the Nouveau Roman that had informed his earliest work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46318085996695,"sku":"9781939663306","price":703.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781939663306.webp?v=1767712112","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/district-9781939663306","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}