{"product_id":"the-correspondence-artist-paperback-1","title":"The Correspondence Artist - 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\u003eBarbara Browning\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Correspondence Artist\u003c\/i\u003e is smart, funny, sexy, knowledgeable, subtle, disturbing, light-hearted, obsessive, and tragic: a comedy that, I surmise, is wholly confessional and wholly imaginary. Readers are urged not to resent a wit superior to their own, since it is deployed entirely for their particular entertainment.\"--Harry Mathews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVivian, a writer, is carrying on a relationship with an internationally acclaimed artist. There are those who stand to profit--and suffer--from the revelation of her paramour's identity, so in the service of telling her tale, she creates a series of fictional lovers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is Tzipi, a sixty-eight-year-old Nobel-winning female Israeli writer; Binh, a twenty-something Vietnamese video artist; Santuxto, a poetic Basque separatist; and Djeli, a dreadlocked Malian world-music star.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLargely through Vivian's e-mail correspondence, she divulges the story of their relationship, from their first meeting to their jumpy spam filter, which arrests the more explicit notes that result in Vivian being held captive in a tiger cage in a Berlin hotel\/being chased by a Medusa-like woman on a Greek Island\/imprisoned by a splinter cell of Basque separatists\/in an African hospital with a bout of Dengue Fever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Browning's captivating wit and passionate intelligence make \u003ci\u003eThe Correspondence Artist\u003c\/i\u003e a love story like none other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Browning\u003c\/b\u003e has a PhD from Yale in comparative literature. She teaches in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. She's also a poet and a dancer. She lives with her son in Greenwich Village.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Browning got a doctorate in comparative literature while also performing as a dancer in Brazil, New York, and Paris. She taught in the English Department at Princeton and then the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 7.5 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Independent Publisher Book Awards (2012)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lambda Literary Awards (2012)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47237367333113,"sku":"9780982015193","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/quZ5-EtduB9780982015193_bca48cbd-c391-4a02-87ad-184fadf247b9.webp?v=1768539436","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-correspondence-artist-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}