{"product_id":"slow-guillotine","title":"Slow Guillotine","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSlow Guillotine\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eTeo Rivera-Dundas\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781496247315\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Nebraska Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\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\u003e220\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlow Guillotine\u003c\/i\u003e follows three broke weirdos whose collective desire to make and think about art is constantly interrupted by their art-industry-adjacent minimum-wage jobs. Throughout the novel, the three friends' day jobs in a failing independent bookstore, a sterile gallery in downtown Manhattan, and miscellaneous living rooms across the Long Island birthday-party-clown circuit interweave with their attempts to come to terms with their precarity, gender-dysphoric embodiment, and the floating dream of collective liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning one year and told through an obsessive first-person present tense, \u003ci\u003eSlow Guillotine\u003c\/i\u003e brings the bildungsroman structure through the autofictional looking glass, questioning how \"coming of age\" could be feasible in a society of debtors, wage laborers, and renters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Slow Guillotine | Teo Rivera-Dundas | Paperback | 9781496247315 | New | Fiction 1756577","offer_id":49229062701208,"sku":"1756577","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71IRxCbzyhL.jpg?v=1781197670","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/slow-guillotine","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}