{"product_id":"tell-it-slant-paperback-1","title":"Tell It Slant - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBeth Follett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTell It Slant\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold, luscious first novel by Beth Follett, publisher of one of Canada's most exciting and respected small presses, Pedlar Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel tells - slantedly, of course - the story of Nora Flood, a young woman who lives between two sets of voices: those of her own fragmented desires and the internalized voices of western culture, which have always denigrated or refused her deepest desires. She struggles with these contradictory forces, overwhelmed, at times mute, seeking the roots of her psychosexual malaise, searching for the possibility of her own true voice, caught in an obsession that drags her away from the exploration of her own appetites and hungers into its sterile heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut through the interventions of Djuna Barnes, creator of the literary Nora Flood of Barnes' novel \u003ci\u003eNightwood, \u003c\/i\u003e this Nora begins to slip between the cracks and fissures of obsession to shape a life of her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith language that is lush and startling and a shape that is disjointed and elliptical, \u003ci\u003eTell It Slant\u003c\/i\u003e is a brave and beautiful book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 7.54 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771658436896,"sku":"9781552450819","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/20c81929bcca82003715db4aa508c5d9.webp?v=1780390492","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/tell-it-slant-paperback-1","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}