{"product_id":"it-lasts-forever-and-then-its-over","title":"It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"contributors___d5659\"\u003eAnne de Marcken\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex dir-col\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"min-width-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"dotDot\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eBACKLIST \u003c\/b\u003e| On Sale Date: Mar 5, 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"dotDot\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"MuiList-root MuiList-padding css-1wduhak\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MuiListItem-root MuiListItem-gutters MuiListItem-padding css-146xefr\"\u003eFiction \/ Absurdist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MuiListItem-root MuiListItem-gutters MuiListItem-padding css-146xefr\"\u003eFiction \/ Dystopian\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MuiListItem-root MuiListItem-gutters MuiListItem-padding css-146xefr\"\u003eFiction \/ LGBTQ+\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"related-products-container\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e160\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"biblioTwoItemContainer___QeMy0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"dotDot\"\u003e20.3 cm H | 13.2 cm W | 1 cm T | 159 g Wt\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"dotDot\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"dotDot\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCo-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it — how much of what we love can we lose before we are lost? And then what happens? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCO-WINNER OF THE NOVEL PRIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF A PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOK AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis third perspective on myself is disconcerting. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe heroine of the spare and haunting\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over \u003c\/em\u003eis voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known—where she loved and was loved. Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA bracing writer of great nerve and verve, Anne de Marcken bends reality (and the reader’s mind) with throwaway assurance.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eplumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love. Delivering a near-Beckettian whopping to the reader’s imagination, this is one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, a tale for our dispossessed times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52983178035497,"sku":"9780811237857","price":311.02,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9420\/7529\/files\/9780811237857_55e8c.jpg?v=1776120169","url":"https:\/\/www.bookup.com.mx\/products\/it-lasts-forever-and-then-its-over","provider":"BOOKUPMX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}