{"product_id":"big-kiss-bye-bye-a-novel-by-claire-louise-bennett","title":"Big Kiss, Bye-Bye: A Novel by Claire Louise Bennett (HC)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA woman confronts the afterlife of intimacy, in a deeply tender novel by one of our most acclaimed and inventive fiction writers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she’s left behind. The most insistent are those of Xavier, who has always been certain he knows her better than anyone, better than she knows herself. Xavier, whom she still loves but no longer desires, a displacement he has been unable to accept.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unexpected letter from an old acquaintance brings back a torrent of others she’s loved or wanted. Each has been a match and a mismatch, a liberation and a threat to her very sense of self. The ephemera left by their passage –a spilled coffee, an unwanted bouquet, a mind-blowing kiss—make up a cabinet of curiosity she inventories, trying to divine the essence of intimacy. What does it mean to connect with another person? What impels us to touch someone, to be touched by them, to stay in touch? How do we let them go? In yet another tour de force of fiction, Claire-Louise Bennett explores the mystery of how people come into and go out of our lives, leaving us forever in their grasp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA formidable one-woman show … Bennett allows the reader to sit in the house with her … without unctuousness or hypocrisy. And what an engrossing house it is.”-\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Good old-fashioned modernist fun… The novel contains many … moments of almost febrile power, rendered in prose both gorgeous and a little unnerving. To call \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBig Kiss, Bye-Bye\u003c\/span\u003e entertaining would be to do an injustice to its discomfiting depth, but reading it is a strange and wonderfully invigorating experience.”–\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“Utterly original … among the most rapturous pieces of writing about desire that I’ve ever read.”–\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Star Tribune\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRODUCT DETAILS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e979-8217046645\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ePages:  224\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Page \u0026 Turner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44923368505552,"sku":null,"price":1355.0,"currency_code":"PHP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8000\/5328\/files\/81DEpN2PCWL._SL1500.jpg?v=1770627677","url":"https:\/\/pageandturner.ph\/products\/big-kiss-bye-bye-a-novel-by-claire-louise-bennett","provider":"Page \u0026 Turner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}