{"product_id":"maggienelsonbluets","title":"Maggie Nelson - Bluets","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Maggie Nelson. Themes include Art, History, Popular Culture, Biography \u0026amp; Autobiography, Personal Memoirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**As Seen On Bbc2's Between The Covers**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation -\u003c\/i\u003e Olivia Laing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend. The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Much like Roland Barthes's \u003ci\u003eA Lover's Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e has passed between lovers in the ecstasy of new love, and been pressed into the hands of the heartbroken. Visceral, learned, and acutely lucid, \u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e is a slim feat of literary innovation and grace, never before published in the Uk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57824226738550,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9781911214526.jpg?v=1778322561","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/maggienelsonbluets","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}