{"product_id":"big-shadow-paperback-3","title":"Big Shadow - 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\u003eMarta Balcewicz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an unnamed town in the summer of 1998, Judy is an isolated and inexperienced teenager on the cusp of adulthood struggling to craft an identity for herself--especially as the artist she wants to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is little help around her. Her only friends are increasingly obsessed with a cultish belief in a coming \"Big Shadow.\" Her mother is afraid of life and finds solace in TV shows. At her lowest point, Judy meets Maurice Blunt, a visiting summer poetry class professor who is a \"has-been\" fixture of the 1970s NYC punk music scene. Judy believes Maurice--a man more than twice her age desperately seeking lost adoration--is the ticket out of her current life. Soon, she begins taking secret weekend trips to visit him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudy's visits to his apartment in New York bring hopes of belonging to the city's cultural world and making a living as a video artist. With each trip and frustrated promise, however, she feels the creeping realization that there is a price to pay for her golden ticket entry into this insular and moribund scene. Judy must navigate the shifting power dynamics with her aging gatekeeper and the possibility of building an early adult identity alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn affecting novel of psychological nuance and dark humour, \u003ci\u003eBig Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e explores the costs of self-deceit, fandom, and tenuous ambitions, exposing the lies we'll tell ourselves and the promises we'll make to edge closer to what we want... or what we think we want.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarta Balcewicz spent her early childhood in Pomerania and Madrid, and now lives in Toronto. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e online, \u003ci\u003eVol. 1. Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Square Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePassages North\u003c\/i\u003e, amongst other publications. Her fiction was anthologized in \u003ci\u003eTiny Crimes\u003c\/i\u003e(Catapult, 2018). She received a fellowship from Tin House Workshops in 2022. \u003ci\u003eBig Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 294\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 16, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47241279930617,"sku":"9781771668316","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/MDlWcHlmaGMvSUVqY2QrMXBmUGNsUT09_656b3f38-26e0-497f-988a-4558bdc2b99c.webp?v=1768580201","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/big-shadow-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}