{"product_id":"disintegration-in-four-parts-9781552454244","title":"Disintegration in Four Parts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFour writers, four different perspectives on the problematic notion of purity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"All purity is created by resemblance and disavowal.\" With this sentence as a starting point, four authors each write a novella considering the concept of purity, all from astonishingly different angles. Jean Marc Ah-Sen writes about love blooming between two writers belonging to feuding literary movements. Emily Anglin explores an architect's search for her twin at a rural historic house. Devon Code documents the Wittgensteinian upheavals of the last days of an elderly woman. And Lee Henderson imagines Dada artist Kurt Schwitters finding unlikely inspiration in a Second World War internment camp in northern Norway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWildly different in style and subject matter, these four virtuoso pieces give us a 360-degree view of a philosophical theme that has never felt so urgent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Despite the disparity of their subject matter – a Nazi-evading Dadaist detained in Norway, urban and familial estrangements, complicated love amid the avant-garde, the vicissitudes of old age – these brilliantly inventive, delightfully strange stories cling together like four unlikely soulmates, unified by art’s pursuit of coherence through life’s various disintegrations.” —Pasha Malla, author of \u003ci\u003eKill the Mall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jean Marc Ah-Sen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48308063633659,"sku":"9781552454244","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781552454244.jpg?v=1772484739","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/disintegration-in-four-parts-9781552454244","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}