{"product_id":"youll-like-it-here-paperback","title":"You'll Like it Here - 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\u003eAshton Politanoff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou'll Like it Here\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting bricolage, divided into three parts, that excavates the forgotten history of Redondo Beach in the early 1900's through old news clippings, advertisements, recipes and other ephemera that speak to the ills of male stoicism, industrialization and capitalism, and environmental displacement. Ashton used digital archives from the \u003ci\u003eRedondo Reflex\u003c\/i\u003e and other city adjacent newspapers as the basis for his surrealist account, masterfully tracing this larger shift away from coastal maritime repose in the wake of the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression, and World War II through momentary fragments that feel as real and palpable as they do transient, mythological, and strangely reminiscent of our current times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormally, \u003ci\u003eYou'll Like it Here\u003c\/i\u003e works in conversation with Michael Ondaatje's \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Works of Billy the Kid\u003c\/i\u003e, Maggie Nelson's \u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e, Amina Cain's \u003ci\u003eIndelicacy\u003c\/i\u003e, and Kathryn Scanlan's \u003ci\u003eAug 9 Fog.\u003c\/i\u003e The novel also embraces a multi-register, journalistic storytelling that questions the tenuous line between objectivity and subjectivity in documenting the unreliability of history--both personal and collective--brilliantly balancing voids of loss, absence, and disappearance with moments of natural transcendence and miraculous phenomena.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAshton Politanoff\u003c\/b\u003e's writing has appeared frequently in \u003ci\u003eNOON\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eNew York Tyrant\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEgress\u003c\/i\u003e, and other print and digital journals. Several of his stories have been anthologized, and he is a full-time English Instructor at Cypress College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 204\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.5 x 5.5 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 September 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47252621328633,"sku":"9781628974034","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dks5akxiWHJKdEQra3RXNkV0UytsQT09.webp?v=1768689024","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/youll-like-it-here-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}