{"product_id":"9780811237857","title":"It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis third perspective on myself is disconcerting.  \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe heroine of the spare and haunting \u003cem\u003eIt Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over\u003c\/em\u003e is 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 (and loved), and she is determined to get back there at any cost. Our dead heroine travels across the landscapes of time and of space (heading always west and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest), en-countering and losing parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA bracing writer of great nerve and verve, Anne de Marcken bends reality (and the reader’s mind) with throwaway assurance. \u003cem\u003eIt Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over\u003c\/em\u003e plumbs 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","brand":"Anne de Marcken","offers":[{"title":"New Directions Publishing |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-03-05","offer_id":44414011539711,"sku":"9780811237857","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5c24b83a-c252-40bf-abb2-957b7b506ce7.jpg?v=1697660992","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780811237857","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}