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Other pieces use generative schemes, portraits of mental shapes, which create meaning out of noise. Visually, each chapter is captivating, showing the author's need for shapes and colors in her work, her fascination with the contours of speech.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49932823527697,"sku":"CIN0811214427G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":54722112553233,"sku":"CIN0811214427VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811214427.jpg?v=1786135831"},{"product_id":"experimental-animals-book-thalia-field-9780986235535","title":"Experimental Animals","description":"Fiction. \"Stemming from a through-line of marital discord in the household of the great French vivisector, Claude Bernard, Thalia Field has discovered a number of voices, some famous, some forgotten, and allowed them all a moment in which to be heard again. This compelling tale is made up largely of excerpts and quotations, pieced together with great artistry. A beautiful and thought-provoking collage of a tale of rescued history and a sobering tribute to some of its victims.\" —Karen Joy Fowler\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Advancing what she started twenty years ago with her earliest explorations of essayistic fiction, Thalia Field has now composed what very well might be her life's work—a tragic, comical, and utterly fascinating tale of a marriage that vividly encapsulates not only the origins of experimental medicine, but an entire age that spirited experiments in literature, science, engineering, film, etc. It's nothing less than a history—gorgeously fictional, purposefully essayistic—of how we got where we are.\" —John D'Agata","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50033498587409,"sku":"CIN0986235539G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50376610971921,"sku":"CIN0986235539A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423000723729,"sku":"CIN0986235539VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0986235539.jpg?v=1750789266"},{"product_id":"personhood-book-thalia-field-9780811229739","title":"Personhood","description":"A remarkable and moving cross-genre work about animal rights by one of Americas foremost experimental writers","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50205281091857,"sku":"CIN0811229734G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50487294394641,"sku":"GOR013967509","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50987696750865,"sku":"CIN0811229734VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52105589719313,"sku":"CIN0811229734A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":67670960046353,"sku":"NIN9780811229739","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811229734.jpg?v=1791953200"},{"product_id":"bird-lovers-backyard-book-thalia-field-9780811218405","title":"Bird Lovers, Backyard","description":"Thalia Fields third book with New Directions is a tour de force of blending literary genres (poetry, prose, essay, and drama) and examining our control of the natural world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50883932094737,"sku":"CIN0811218406G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53393120788753,"sku":"GOR014897527","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811218406.jpg?v=1786135435"},{"product_id":"ululu-clown-shrapnel-book-thalia-field-9781566891967","title":"ULULU (Clown Shrapnel)","description":"An imaginative triumph, this carnivalesque narrative brings the history of an archetypal stage character to life.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51037355475217,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037358129425,"sku":"NIN9781566891967","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52683818074385,"sku":"NLS9781566891967","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1566891965.jpg?v=1750861549"},{"product_id":"incarnate-book-thalia-field-9780811215992","title":"Incarnate","description":"An enthralling new work by one of America's foremost experimental writers. Thalia Field's inventive new book explores the very condition of being incarnate: how, invested with human form, we experience both suffering and ecstasy from childhood to adulthood to death. As with her previous book published by New Directions, Point and Line (2000), Incarnate defies categorization: it \"industriously works the sparsely populated and as yet underdeveloped borderlands between poetry, fiction, theater, and contemporary classical music\" (Review of Contemporary Fiction). In Incarnate: Story Material, she continues to reach beyond borders, examining how, trapped in our own stories, we act and react in a world of solidity, perceiving something \"other\" close at hand. With its amazing variety of poetic and prose-like forms, driven by a fierce and playful intelligence, Incarnate: Story Material challenges and moves us.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51334293127441,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51334295388433,"sku":"CIN0811215997VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811215997.jpg?v=1751329668"},{"product_id":"leave-to-remain-book-thalia-field-9781628972849","title":"Leave to Remain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeave to Remain\u003c\/i\u003e is a faux spy-novel possessed by the spirit of Janus: doubleness, duplicity, double-entendres, two-facedness, bridges and doorways—as is only appropriate for a work composed by two writers: one French, one American.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo-faced Janus resurrects into a time-traveling adventure, a tour of double-agents, double-speak, and double-dealings. 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