{"product_id":"last-vanities-stories-9780811213745","title":"Last Vanities: Stories","description":"\"Reading time is approximately four hours. Remembering time, as for its author, the rest of one's life,\" said Joseph Brodsky of Fleur Jaeggy's novel, Sweet Days of Displine. Now Jaeggy has come up with seven stories, each at some deep level in dark complicity with the others, all as terse and spare as if etched with a steel tip. A brooding atmosphere of horror, a disturbing and subversive propensity for delirium haunts the violent gestures and chilly irony of these tales. Full of menace, the air they breathe is stirred only by the FÜhn, the warm west wind of the Alps that inclines otherwise respectable citizens to vent the spleen and angst of life's last vanities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJaeggy, Fleur:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eFleur Jaeggy\u003c\/strong\u003e-- \"a wonderful, brilliant, savage writer\" (Susan Sontag) --was born in 1940 in Zurich and lives in Milan. Her work has been acclaimed as \"small-scale, intense, and impeccably focused \"(The New Yorker) and \"addictive\" (Kirkus).\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eParks, Tim:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eTim Parks\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, including the best-selling \u003cem\u003eItalian Neighbors\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAn Italian Education\u003c\/em\u003e. His novels include \u003cem\u003eEuropa\u003c\/em\u003e which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His essays have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books. \u003c\/em\u003eParks is also a renowned translator from the Italian and lives in Verona.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648909512978,"sku":"9780811213745","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9a67d902-e309-412b-ba46-17f372b5ff43.jpg?v=1733252526","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/last-vanities-stories-9780811213745","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}