{"product_id":"paradebooks","title":"Parade","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrafted by the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, \u003cem\u003eParade\u003c\/em\u003e disturbs and defines the novel.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMidway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. The attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim, like an artist stepping back from a canvas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a woman dies, her children confront her legacy: the stories she told, the roles she assigned to them, the ways she withheld her love. Her death is a kind of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn artist takes on a series of pseudonyms to conceal his work from his mother and father. His brother does the opposite. They share the same parents, but they have inherited different things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eParade\u003c\/em\u003e is a story that confronts and demolishes the conventions of storytelling. It surges past the limits of identity, character and plot to tell a true story—about art, family, morality, gender and how we compose ourselves. A writer and a visionary like no other, Rachel Cusk turns language upside down to show us our world as it really is.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cusk, Rachel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":47113562489056,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/Screenshot2025-03-10at10.44.53AM.png?v=1741614305","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/paradebooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}