{"product_id":"bad-handwriting-paperback","title":"Bad Handwriting - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSara Mesa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKatie Whittemore\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eFrances Riddle\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the highly acclaimed \u003ci\u003eFour by Four\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmong the Hedges\u003c\/i\u003e comes a collection of unsettling, captivating stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eleven stories in this collection approach themes of childhood and adolescence, guilt and redemption, power and freedom. There are children who resist authority and experience the process of growing up with shock, and loneliness; alienated young girls whose rebellion lies under the surface--subterranean, furious and impotent; people who are tormented--or not--by regret and doubt, addicted to feelings of culpability; men who take advantage of women and adults who exercise power over children with a disturbing degree of control; kids abandoned by their parents; the suicide of the elderly and the young; lives that hide crimes--both real and imagined. Eschewing cosmopolitanism in favor of the micro-world of her characters, Mesa depicts a reality that is messy and disturbing, on even the smallest scale of an individual life, a single family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara Mesa\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight works of fiction, including \u003ci\u003eScar\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Ojo Critico Prize), \u003ci\u003eFour by Four\u003c\/i\u003e (a finalist for the Herralde Prize), \u003ci\u003eAn Invisible Fire\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Premio Málaga de Novela), \u003ci\u003eAmong the Hedges\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUn amor\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named by several Spanish newspapers as the book of the year for 2020. Her works have been translated into more than ten different languages, and she has been widely praised for her concise, sharp writing style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatie Whittemore\u003c\/b\u003e is graduate of the University of NH (BA), Cambridge University (M.Phil), and Middlebury College (MA), and was a 2018 Bread Loaf Translators Conference participant. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eTwo Lines\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Arkansas International\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Common Online\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast Magazine Online\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eInTranslation\u003c\/i\u003e. Current projects include novels by Spanish authors Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, Aliocha Coll, Aroa Moreno Durán, Nuria Labari, Katixa Agirre, and Juan Gómez Bárcena.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 5.4 x 8.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 26, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47252224966905,"sku":"9781948830553","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/NzRQVGJhUVpGQWxEYXBYZ3RFcDA2Zz09.webp?v=1768684716","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/bad-handwriting-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}