{"product_id":"walking-papers-9781683365143","title":"Walking Papers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTurner Publishing is proud to present a new edition of Sandra Hochman's first novel, \u003ci\u003eWalking Papers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFirst published by Viking Press in 1971, Hochman's widely-praised novel is about a messy divorce told with a poet's verve.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Viking Press edition: Diana Balooka: \"Out of my womanhood is my madness woven.\" And, for Diana, out of marriage has divorce arisen. With four children, a pet Zulu-Terrier (a rare breed), and a wheeler-dealer love affair to boot.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiana Balooka: \"We are babies. Watched by our elders. Like the dangerously Insane and deaf we invent our own language We gesture in our own mudras. We understand each other.\" Breaking into herself, Diana is a sanity robber armed with cupfuls of tears and lots of laughs. How can pain be amusing?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSandra Hochman's novel is how.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a madcap erotic journal of the very separate parts of one woman's life. It is played out with a great personal intensity, a kind of tape-recorded reality that stuns and amazes upon the sound of her own voice; fast forward to Juarez. Mexico; reverse to her flamboyant grandfather's used stageprop farm, or to life In Paris with a hypnotist; hold, for a moment of tormented reflection, on Jason, the nonhusband; then slowly spin forward again, frantic and funny, turn, turn, to everything there is a season . . . . Should the tape chance to break. she bends and splices it together, twists it and sets it to reel on a little further.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMiss Hochman pulls and tugs her heroine-a mother, tapdancer. writer, and partner in an affair that stretches from an ocean beach to real estate on Seventy- second Street-as she is caught to a bizarre parade of men on the hunt in New York City. Her invention, sensuality, and poetic gifts lend to \u003ci\u003eWalking Papers\u003c\/i\u003e a totally original novelist's voice belonging, in Diana's words, to \"a woman obsessed with essentials.\" A women to be read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHochman, Sandra:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - The author of six novels with three forthcoming from Turner Publishing, Sandra Hochman is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet with six volumes of poetry. She also authored two nonfiction books and directed a 1973 documentary, \u003ci\u003eYear of the Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, currently enjoying a renaissance. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and she was a columnist for \u003ci\u003eHarpers Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e. She also ran her own foundation, You're an Artist Too at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to teach poetry and song writing to children ages 7-12 for fifteen years.","brand":"Turner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50362518536466,"sku":"9781683365143","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5914fb95-8b63-4f8d-bac8-008ce3517e53.jpg?v=1728385783","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/walking-papers-9781683365143","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}