{"product_id":"bluets","title":"Bluets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBluets\u003c\/em\u003e winds its way through 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend. The 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\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maggie Nelson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42642362138881,"sku":"9781911214526","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-2023-07-07T142104.646.png?v=1688736075","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/bluets","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}