{"product_id":"9781787704268-life-of-the-mind-1","title":"The Life of the Mind","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Sharp and funny.\" (Daily Mail)\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTimes Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhite Review\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2021.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***A TIME MAGAZINE, LITHUB, WHITE REVIEW BEST BOOK OF 2021***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"200 pages of serious entertainment.\" ―\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Life of the Mind\u003c\/em\u003e opens with Dorothy sitting on a library toilet, checking her phone and examining the “thick, curdled knots of string” coming out of her body. No one but her boyfriend knows that she’s had a miscarriage, not even her therapists–Dorothy has two of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn adjunct professor of English in New York City with no hope of finding a permanent position, Dorothy’s stuck, unable to envision the future or cut ties with the past. “What did you call it,” she asks herself, “when a life stopped developing, but it didn’t end?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristine Smallwood’s debut is a campus novel like no other. Piercingly intelligent and darkly hilarious, it moves from a classroom to an underwater puppet show, from a conference in Las Vegas to a karaoke party. It is a discomforting glimpse into the head of a brilliant woman on the edge, it is a novel about endings: of youth, of professional aspiration, of possibility, of the illusion that our minds can ever free us from the tyranny of our bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40266822647905,"sku":"9781787704268","price":7.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36338296.jpg?v=1759409302","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781787704268-life-of-the-mind-1","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}