{"product_id":"spain-9780999418642","title":"Spain","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiterary Nonfiction. Womens Studies. \"Here we are  in Spain.\" Caren Beilins travelogue lays out a new path for the genre. SPAIN is sly cultural criticism (Blanchot to The Shining)  feminist wink  post-breakup corrective  and portrait of the artist as a young mansplained woman. Our narrator finds herself  skeptically  at an artist residency in Spain  rendering her life into vivid fragments that pop and sting. With acerbic flair  Beilin swings an axe into the stuff of memoir. \"I dont care to dine with anyone \" she proclaims. Reader  pull up a chair.  \"While the other art colonists around her are making the world soft--photographers setting day-long exposures and textile artists felting cocoons--Caren Beilins SPAIN is hard: made and re-made in its mosaic shards. Abject  affronted and audacious  the resilient narrator  who incidentally might faint at a thought  if its a rigorous thought  who might then rouse wherever  in the company of countryside sheep  is on the perilous cusp of insight on multiple fronts. She looks up from her book in her book to assert that form is a better heroine than Emma in Madame Bovary  and proceeds to read against what was happening. The beginning of the end of fiction.\"--Brian Blanchfield  \"Caren Beilins SPAIN is like a Hostel-ization of Ben Lerners Leaving the Atocha Station. Beilins protagonist isnt in Spain on a Fulbright. Rather  shes paying her own way at a dubious artist residency with the proceeds of a defunct relationship with an older  wealthy man. SPAIN is a fantastic  poetic and realistic account of travel in a post-travel world.\"--Chris Kraus  \"SPAIN is a genre-bending document of the narrators female  migratory writing life through the wounded  binoculative  molested soul of her nipples. SPAIN is stuffed with poetic axing  bicycling  pussying  traveloguing  Rilke-ing  Claire Denis-ing  reading  anti-Spain-ing. This highly inventive  highly imaginative book relentlessly disrupts the contemporary order of memoir writing. Beilin goes to the moon and back  and is not afraid to be scandalous or poetic or whimsical or ethical at a moments notice.\"--Vi Khi Nao\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924722450485,"sku":"ByrdShop_0999418645","price":344.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780999418642.jpg?v=1794139870","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/spain-9780999418642","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}