{"product_id":"the-women-i-love-9781250858771","title":"The Women I Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative and bracing send-up of modern masculinity from the author of \u003ci\u003eClass\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Purity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarcello, an editor and a poet, is on the brink of his forties. Like everyone in his life, including his sister-in-law, he's writing a novel. This novel. This novel will be about women. Love. Growing older. Maybe even taking responsibility. But unfortunately for Marcello, the women in his life resist definition. They flit and flicker constantly between archetype and actuality: sirens and saviors, subordinates and savants, vixens and villains. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo Marcello cannot write plainly about love. Instead, he tries to write about the complexities of his many relationships: Eleonora, the junior editor, his former protégé and sometime lover; Barbara, his claustrophobic girlfriend; Irene, his estranged gay sister; and his elegant mother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFresh, frank, and painfully cool, Francesco Pacifico's \u003ci\u003eThe Women I Love\u003c\/i\u003e dives nakedly into gender, sex, and power. Set in a vivid and alcoholic Italy, it acknowledges and subverts the narrow ways canonical male writers gaze at, and somehow fail to see, women--illuminating the possibility of equity between people in love, in bed, in work, and in life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancesco Pacifico\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Rome. He is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Purity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eClass\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Critics' Top Book of 2017. He is a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eLa Repubblica\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, and his work has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He is a founder and senior editor of the literary magazine \u003ci\u003eIl Tascabile\u003c\/i\u003e. He has translated the work of a number of writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Henry Miller, Dave Eggers, Hanya Yanagihara, Ralph Ellison, Chris Ware, Matt Groening, David Mazzucchelli, and Alison Bechdel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Harris\u003c\/b\u003e has translated works by Mario Rigoni Stern, Giulio Mozzi, Antonio Tabucchi, Andrea Bajani, and Claudia Durastanti. For her various translations of Tabucchi, she has received an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship, the Italian Prose in Translation Award, and the National Translation Award for prose.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50508057379090,"sku":"9781250858771","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_13469af1-d996-4070-ba9a-2ac9ae3586bc.jpg?v=1730872476","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-women-i-love-9781250858771","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}