{"product_id":"the-long-form-paperback","title":"The Long Form - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKate Briggs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of the book-length essay \u003ci\u003eThis Little Art\u003c\/i\u003e, a debut novel that reaches back to the start of the novel tradition and outward to the complexities of contemporary life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKate Brigg's debut novel--the follow-up to her acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThis Little Art\u003c\/i\u003e--is the story of a young mother, Helen, awake with her baby. Together they are moving through a morning routine that is in one sense entirely ordinary--resting, feeding, pacing. Yet in the closeness of their rented flat, such everyday acts take on epic scope, thoughts and objects made newly alive in the light of their shared attention. Then the rhythm of their morning is interrupted: a delivery person arrives with a used copy of Fielding's \u003ci\u003eThe History of Tom Jones\u003c\/i\u003e, which Helen has ordered online. She begins to read, and attention shifts. As their day unfolds, the intimate space Helen shares with her baby becomes entwined with Fielding's novel, with other books and ideas, and with questions about class and privilege, housing and caregiving, and the support structures that underlie durational forms of codependency, both social and artistic.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize, \u003cb\u003eKate Briggs\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the acclaimed genre-bending essay on translation, \u003ci\u003eThis Little Art\u003c\/i\u003e, and has translated two volumes of Roland Barthes's lecture and seminar notes at the Coll鑒e de France: \u003ci\u003eThe Preparation of the Novel and How to Live Together\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by Columbia University Press. She teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 7 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 October 03, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764438499616,"sku":"9781948980210","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5285bc473ded1f3bca30c7c16822bae3.webp?v=1780248284","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-long-form-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}