{"product_id":"from-a-broken-bottle-traces-of-perfume-still-emanate-volumes-1-3-9780811218443","title":"From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, Volumes 1-3","description":"\u003cem\u003eFrom a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate: Volumes 1-3\u003c\/em\u003e collects the first three installments--\u003cem\u003eBedouin Hornbook\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDjbot Baghostus's Run\u003c\/em\u003e, and Atet A.D.--of Nathaniel Mackey's genre-defying work of fiction. A project that began over thirty years ago, \u003cem\u003eFrom a Broken Bottle\u003c\/em\u003e is an epistolary novel that unfolds through N.'s intricate letters to the mysterious Angel of Dust. Unexpected, profound happenings take place as N. delves into music and art and the goings-on of his transmorphic Los Angeles-based jazz ensemble, in which he is a composer and instrumentalist. This triple-set book opens in July 1978 with a dream of a haunting Archie Shepp solo, and closes in September 1982 in a parallactic studio recording session on a glass-bottomed boat borne aloft by the music. The fourth volume of Mackey's novel, \u003cem\u003eBass Cathedral\u003c\/em\u003e--also available from New Directions--was chosen by \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e as one of 100 Notable Books of 2008. But that it didn't end there...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMackey, Nathaniel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eNathaniel Mackey\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Miami, Florida in 1947. He is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and criticism, and has received many awards for his work, including the National Book Award in poetry for \u003cem\u003eSplay Anthem\u003c\/em\u003e, the Stephen Henderson Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society, and the Bollingen Prize from the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Mackey is the Reynolds Price Professor of English at Duke University, and edits the literary journal \u003cem\u003eHambone\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50556491202834,"sku":"9780811218443","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e5e43b93-ed97-4c1a-8f72-a1797df62d41.jpg?v=1731755133","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/from-a-broken-bottle-traces-of-perfume-still-emanate-volumes-1-3-9780811218443","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}