{"product_id":"district","title":"District","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDistrict\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eTony Duvert\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781939663306\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eWakefield Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2017\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eDistrict\u003c\/i\u003e describes, in ten vignettes, the sad, sordid and sinister aspects of a section of an unnamed French city, and the manners in which the ghostlike human entities that live and wither within it are molded, moved and absorbed by its spaces.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA noisy metro station, old tenements, buildings going up, along with the fixtures of French communal life: the open-air market, the public garden; the little shops and bars, the lively town square--the ugly and mundane, the coarse and unmentionable sit side by side with the occasionally burgeoning bit of beauty. With a sense of voyeuristic tension and queasy complicity, the reader is taken on an outcast's tour of city life--from construction site to metro, from bar to brothel--an analysis of communal living in the conditional tense from the perspective of the absolute exile. One of Duvert's last books, it is also one of his shortest: an unexpected return to the roving, fractured eye of the Nouveau Roman that had informed his earliest work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press","offers":[{"title":"District | Tony Duvert | Paperback | 9781939663306 | New | Fiction 1605982","offer_id":50676165050626,"sku":"1605982","price":27.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71EgyQomEUL.jpg?v=1791353248","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/district","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}