{"product_id":"second-placebooks","title":"Second Place","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the Booker Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e’s list of 55 of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a sun-soaked Parisian street, M, a mother on the brink of rebellion, wanders into a famous artist’s gallery show. The artist’s paintings speak—quite literally—to her, promising a liberation usually reserved for men. She returns to the coastal home she shares with her husband, but the unsettling impression of the art, and the evasive artist, remains. So she writes to him, inviting him to stay in their second place, a modest cottage salvaged from the land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen historical catastrophe upends daily life, M’s daughter returns to the marsh, along with her prim, privileged boyfriend. The painter arrives too, accompanied by a lithe, cosmopolitan lover. As the couples become resigned to the perilous indoors, fissures form within the strange group. The painter’s quietly demonic presence wreaks havoc with M, plunging her into existential disarray. As secrets, alliances and private desires come to light, she is forced to choose between her deepest impulses: to comply or to rebel completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike her acclaimed \u003cem\u003eOutline\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy, Rachel Cusk’s \u003cem\u003eSecond Place\u003c\/em\u003e transcends its form. Inspired by \u003cem\u003eLorenzo in Taos\u003c\/em\u003e, Mabel Dodge Luhan’s 1932 memoir about the writer D. H. Lawrence’s fraught visit to her communal property, the novel hovers between past and present, Gothic and contemporary, fable and truth—and continues to haunt us long after we’ve looked away.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cusk, Rachel","offers":[{"title":"Hardback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44068682236128,"sku":"","price":17.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":46227307069664,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_aa773693-307d-4da5-a89c-f3d3425569c9.jpg?v=1687980931","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/second-placebooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}