{"product_id":"9781770462700","title":"Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero by Michael DeForge","description":"Sticks Angelica is, in her own words,  49 years  old.  Former:  Olympian,  poet,  scholar, sculptor,  minister,  activist,  Governor General,  entrepreneur,  line  cook,  head- mistress, Mountie, columnist, libertarian, cellist.  After a high-profile family scandal, Sticks escapes to the woods to live in what would be relative isolation were it not for the  many  animals  that  surround  and  inevitably  annoy  her.  Sticks  is  an  arrogant self-obsessed force who wills herself on the flora and fauna. There is a rabbit named Oatmeal who harbours an unrequited love for  her,  a  pair  of  kissing  geese,  a  cross- dressing  moose  absurdly  named  Lisa Hanawalt. When a reporter named, ahem, Michael  DeForge  shows  up  to  interview Sticks for his biography on her, she quickly slugs him and buries him up to his neck, immobilizing him. Instead, Sticks narrates her way through the forest, recalling formative incidents from her storied past in what becomes a strange sort of autobiography.  Deforge s  witty  dialogue  and deadpan narration create a bizarre yet eerily familiar world.   Sticks Angelica plays with autobiography, biography, and hagiography to look at how we build our own sense of self and how others carry on the roles we create for them in our own personal dramas.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303421489525,"sku":"9781770462700","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781770462700.jpg?v=1762794403","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781770462700","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}