{"product_id":"bluets-by-maggie-nelson-9781911214526","title":"Bluets","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBluets\u003c\/em\u003e is a Guardian Book of the Year and was featured on BBC2's \u003cem\u003eBetween the Covers\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation.\" - Olivia Laing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBluets\u003c\/em\u003e winds its way through themes of depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen, and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMuch like Roland Barthes's \u003cem\u003eA Lover's Discourse\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBluets\u003c\/em\u003e has passed between lovers in the ecstasy of new love, and been pressed into the hands of the heartbroken. Visceral, learned, and acutely lucid, \u003cem\u003eBluets\u003c\/em\u003e is a slim feat of literary innovation and grace, never before published in the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46370046673132,"sku":"9781911214526","price":21.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12899543482868.jpg?v=1744803387","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/bluets-by-maggie-nelson-9781911214526","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}