{"product_id":"loves-that-bind","title":"Loves That Bind","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLoves That Bind\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJulian Rios\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780375700606\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVintage\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1999\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e256\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eFrom one of Spain's most distinguished--and daring--writers comes this intensely erotic and shamelessly literary adventure through the streets of London. \u003cbr\u003eEmil, the mysterious narrator, has been abandoned by the woman he loves. Filled with doubt and nostalgia, bent on therapy or distraction or revenge, he wanders the city in search of her. Driven by the anguish of rejection and desire, he writes twenty-six letters to his fugitive lover, each an intricately detailed account of his affairs with twenty-six women who \u003cbr\u003epreceded her. Each of these figures bears an uncanny resemblance to a famous literary heroine, from Proust's Albertine to Fitzgerald's Daisy to Nabokov's Lolita to Queneau's Zazie. \u003cbr\u003eOne by one, in alphabetical order, Emil's letters adopt the tone, style, and substance of the great novelists of the twentieth century, while, in recollection, his past love affairs grow increasingly extravagant and hallucinatory. As we follow his physical and creative journey, we try to unravel fact from fantasy, emotion from delusion, while searching for clues to the novel's amorous alphabet, the building blocks of modernist and postmodernist literature. \u003cbr\u003eA seductive puzzle saturated with wordplay, \"Loves That Bind\" is a linguistic tour de force of remarkable agility and wit. \u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Loves That Bind | Julian Rios | Paperback | 9780375700606 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks D 1760384","offer_id":49199086239896,"sku":"1760384","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/41VaZ0mvG4L.jpg?v=1780694755","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/loves-that-bind","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}