{"product_id":"mauve-desert-paperback","title":"Mauve Desert - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicole Brossard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSusanne de Lotbinière-Harwood\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eSina Queyras\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1987, Nicole Brossard's classic novel returns to Coach House in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, \u003ci\u003eMauve Desert\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for readers and writers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is both a single novel and three separate novels in one. In the first, \u003ci\u003eMauve Desert\u003c\/i\u003e, fifteen-year-old M lanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor chasing fear and desire, cutting loose from her mother and her mother's lover, Lorna, in their roadside Mauve Motel. In the second book, Maudes Laures reads \u003ci\u003eMauve Desert\u003c\/i\u003e, becomes obsessed with it, and embarks on an extraordinary quest for its mysterious author, characters and meaning. The third book - \u003ci\u003eMauve, the horizon\u003c\/i\u003e - is Laures's eventual translation of Mauve Desert. Like all good translations, it is both the same and revealingly different from the original.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicole Brossard's writing is agile and inventive; from moment to moment gripping, exhilarating and erotic. Her language drifts and swells like sand dunes in a desert, cresting and accumulating into a landscape that shifts like wind and words; she translates the practice of translation, the pulse of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 206\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 19, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771657093408,"sku":"9781552451724","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a1b0f18bffa17811c86dc3217c94212a.webp?v=1780390445","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mauve-desert-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}