{"product_id":"girls-against-god","title":"Girls Against God","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGirls Against God\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJenny Hval\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781788738958\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVerso Fiction\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2020\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto for fans of Clarice Lispector and Jeanette Winterson.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWelcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. And awful things happen in aspic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJenny Hval's latest novel is a radical fusion of queer feminist theory and experimental horror, and a unique treatise on magic, writing and art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Strange and lyrical. Hval's writing is surreal and rich with the grotesque banalities of human existence.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The themes of alienation, queerness, and the unsettling nature of desire align Hval with modern mainstays like Chris Kraus, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Maggie Nelson.\" --\u003ci\u003ePitchfork\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Verso Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Girls Against God | Jenny Hval | Paperback | 9781788738958 | New | Fiction 1623359","offer_id":50695821787394,"sku":"1623359","price":46.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81dm-RAs5EL.jpg?v=1791565864","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/girls-against-god","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}