{"product_id":"madly-9781593760830","title":"Madly","description":"Love, with its fear, exhilaration and transcendence, is perhaps the most enduring subject in the literature of the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbout 11 o'clock on a late August night in Manhattan, Bill stops by his local video store, and in the nearly vacant shop meets an exotic stranger looking for advice on which movie to rent. In their fragmented and awkward first conversation, they exchange phone numbers and she rides away on her bicycle with a copy of \u003ci\u003eJules and Jim\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"At two that morning my phone rang. The machine answered; it was Irina saying how much she liked the movie.\" Not long after, they meet and soon begin a love affair, filled with tension and tenderness, as they navigate through their separate pasts to find a road to travel together, for as long as their fates allow. \u003ci\u003eMadly \u003c\/i\u003eis a story of accident and inflected passion, of disruption, erotic and doomed. As Bill comes to realize Irina's disturbed, tenuous hold on reality, his own hold on Irina turns relentless and obsessive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Benton\u003c\/b\u003e received his early training in music, and worked as a jazz musician before becoming a writer. He is the author of several books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eMarmalade\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNormal Meanings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEye La View\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBirds\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. His poetry has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOpen City\u003c\/i\u003e, and other magazines. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe has written a number of catalogue essays on artists, among them Joan Brown, Duncan Hannah, George Johanson, and James McGarrell. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eMadly\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel. His most recent books are \u003ci\u003eA Quatrain on Sleeping Beauty's Tomb\u003c\/i\u003e, a translation of Boris Pasternak's poems, and \u003ci\u003eExchanging Hats\u003c\/i\u003e, on the paintings of Elizabeth Bishop. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51623972634898,"sku":"9781593760830","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f79f0250-4e69-4031-91bd-4c8602c91fc2.jpg?v=1758650446","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/madly-9781593760830","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}