{"product_id":"lament-for-julia-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"Lament for Julia: And Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Taubes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eFrancesca Wade\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA celestial overseer observes--and is continually confounded by--a young woman's path into adulthood in this uncanny and darkly humorous novel, unpublished until now and accompanied by a selection of the author's stories.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSusan Taubes's novella \"Lament for Julia\" is the story of a young woman coming of age in the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of a sexless spirit who supposes himself to be charged with her oversight. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat is this spirit? An operator from on high (though hardly holy), a narrative \u003ci\u003eI\u003c\/i\u003e, and a guiding presence that is more than a bit of a voyeur, who remains entirely unknown to Julia herself. About her, the spirit knows both a good deal and very little, since Julia's emotional and physical and sexual being are all baffling, if also fascinating, to an entity that is pure mind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eI\u003c\/i\u003e and Julia are a mismatched couple, set up for failure from the start, it seems, even if they do somehow manage to deal in their different ways with childhood and Mother and Father Klopps and ugly pink outfits and dances and crushes for a while. After which come love and marriage, not necessarily in that order, at which point things really start to go wrong. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnpublished during Taubes's lifetime, \"Lament for Julia\" appears here with a selection of her stories. A brilliant metaphorical exploration of a woman's double consciousness that is also a masterpiece of the grotesque, it is a novel like no other, a book, as Samuel Beckett wrote to his French publisher, \"full of erotic touches of an emphatic sort [and] raw language,\" the product of an \"authentic talent,\" adding, \"I shall reread it.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Taubes\u003c\/b\u003e (1928-1969) was the daughter of a psychoanalyst and the granddaughter of a rabbi. She and her father emigrated to the United States from Hungary in 1939. She attended Bryn Mawr before studying philosophy and religion in Jerusalem, at the Sorbonne, and at Radcliffe, where she wrote her dissertation on Simone Weil. She and her husband, Jacob Taubes, had a son and a daughter. In 1960 she began teaching at Columbia University. She edited volumes of Native American and African folktales; published a dozen short stories; and wrote two novels, \u003ci\u003eDivorcing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLament for Julia\u003c\/i\u003e, available and forthcoming as NYRB Classics. Her suicide came shortly after the publication of \u003ci\u003eDivorcing\u003c\/i\u003e, in November 1969. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancesca Wade\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eSquare Haunting \u003c\/i\u003e(2020) and has written for the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. She is a 2022-23 fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, where she is working on a book about Gertrude Stein.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8.02 x 5.17 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 06, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757369131296,"sku":"9781681376943","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/85dae3c1cab38ab2c59b2a4b1ffe1c32.webp?v=1780100555","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/lament-for-julia-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}