{"product_id":"9781552453391-baloney","title":"Baloney","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Tristram Shandy-esque novella about failing memory and failed writing, from one of French-Canada’s most exciting new voices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bock's language crackles with the energy of a Québécois folk song, impassioned and celebratory but also melancholy and cheekily ironic.\" \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, on \u003ci\u003eAtavisms\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young, floundering author meets Robert \"Baloney\" Lacerte, an older, marginal poet who seems to own nothing beyond his unwavering certainty. Over the course of one summer evening, Lacerte recounts his unrelenting quest for poetry, which has taken him from Quebec's Boreal forests to South America to East Montreal, where he seems poised to disappear without a trace. But as the blocked writer discovers, Lacerte might just be full of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaxime Raymond Bock \u003c\/b\u003elives in Montreal, Quebec. \u003ci\u003eAtavisms\u003c\/i\u003e, his first book, won the Prix Adrienne-Choquette.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePablo Strauss\u003c\/b\u003e, who translated \u003ci\u003eAtavisms\u003c\/i\u003e, lives in Quebec City, Quebec.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55419800813942,"sku":"9781552453391","price":13.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28020915.jpg?v=1742874410","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781552453391-baloney","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}