{"product_id":"9781788168021","title":"Pop Song : Adventures in Art and Intimacy by Larissa Pham","description":"Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book'...I don't know what comes after, once I decide to let desire have its way with me. How to un-melt the melted? How to turn the ground powder back into a person? This idea points to a knowledge that I don't have: how to love without losing the self.'Plumbing the well of culture for clues about love and loss - from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet to Frank Ocean's Blonde - this brilliant work of debut nonfiction explores the state of falling in love, whether with a painting or a person. Pham creates a perfectly fractured portrait of modern intimacy, triumphant in its vulnerability and restlessness. Pop Song is a book about distances: the miles we travel to get away from ourselves, or those who hurt us, and the impossible gaps that can exist between two people sharing a bed.   Here is a map to all the routes by which we might escape our own needs before finally finding a way home.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205525733554,"sku":"9781788168021","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/products\/9781788168021_818a8af4-d3e0-42a4-acb7-7ff3ea8b2b79.jpg?v=1705395444","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781788168021","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}