{"product_id":"9781644450789","title":"Aurelia, Aurelia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eerily dreamlike memoir, and the first work of nonfiction by one of our most inventive novelists.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAurelia, Aurélia\u003c\/i\u003e begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old,  is traveling to Europe at an age when one can “try on personae like  dresses.” She has the confidence of a teenager cultivating her earliest  obsessions—Woolf, Durrell, Bergman—sure of her maturity, sure of the  life that awaits her. Soon she finds herself in a Greece far drearier  than the Greece of fantasy, “climbing up and down the steep paths every  morning with the real old women, looking for kindling.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKathryn  Davis’s hypnotic new book is a meditation on the way imagination shapes  life, and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination. At its  center is the death of her husband, Eric. The book unfolds as a study of  their marriage, its deep joys and stinging frustrations; it is also a  book about time, the inexorable events that determine beginnings and  endings. The preoccupations that mark Davis’s fiction are recognizable  here—fateful voyages, an intense sense of place, the unexpected union of  the magical and the real—but the vehicle itself is utterly new.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAurelia, Aurélia \u003c\/i\u003eexplodes the conventional bounds of memoir. It is an astonishing accomplishment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kathryn Davis","offers":[{"title":"Graywolf |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2022-03-01","offer_id":44150905929983,"sku":"9781644450789","price":20.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_236c96e4-7ca2-46d3-953a-a63fa45fdd72.jpg?v=1671323921","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781644450789","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}