{"product_id":"these-lowly-objects-9781644672266","title":"These Lowly Objects","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kate McGowan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Gold Wake Press Collective\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Gold Wake Press Collective\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Writing - Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn These Lowly Objects, Cate McGowan has fashioned one of \u003cbr\u003e the great fictional characters of our time in Jules Lalande, \u003cbr\u003e Dadaist extraordinaire. From his Dickensian childhood \u003cbr\u003e alongside a second cousin (and later, wife), Isobel, McGowan \u003cbr\u003e tracks--in rich, rigorous prose--the Zelig-like Lalande's \u003cbr\u003e wanderings through fin de siècle Paris as he rubs elbows with \u003cbr\u003e Degas and Cézanne, fights in World War I, lands in New York \u003cbr\u003e with Breton, becomes a professional boxer, hangs out with \u003cbr\u003e Duchamp, and disappears in Cuba--or does he? Enter this \u003cbr\u003e remarkably imagined, enchanted world and discover the \u003cbr\u003e many delights of McGowan's marvelous creation.\u003cbr\u003e --Robin Lippincott, author of Blue Territory: \u003cbr\u003e A Meditation on the Life and Art of Joan Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e Lyrical, stunning, and deeply strange, Cate McGowan's novel \u003cbr\u003e concerns a shape-shifting protagonist, Jules Lalande. Lalande \u003cbr\u003e disappeared years ago: various people--his estranged wife \u003cbr\u003e Isobel Wright, journalist Titus Pidgeon, and the people \u003cbr\u003e Pidgeon interviews, including historical figures like Andre \u003cbr\u003e Breton and Marcel Duchamp--chase his scent. McGowan's \u003cbr\u003e luminous novel tracks their efforts to conjure this enigmatic \u003cbr\u003e poet-painter-performance artist-thief-con man-duke-trauma \u003cbr\u003e victim-killer-healer. Twisty and original, These Lowly Objects\u003cbr\u003e is fundamentally about self-hood, its precariousness and \u003cbr\u003e perishability, and its surprising capacity for resurrection.\u003cbr\u003e --Kim Magowan, author of Undoing and The \u003cbr\u003e Light Source\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gold Wake Press Collective","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45136123068567,"sku":"9781644672266","price":1311.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781644672266.webp?v=1767909035","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/these-lowly-objects-9781644672266","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}