{ "item_title" : "These Lowly Objects", "item_author" : [" Cate McGowan "], "item_description" : "In These Lowly Objects, Cate McGowan has fashioned one of the great fictional characters of our time in Jules Lalande, Dadaist extraordinaire. From his Dickensian childhood alongside a second cousin (and later, wife), Isobel, McGowan tracks--in rich, rigorous prose--the Zelig-like Lalande's wanderings through fin de si cle Paris as he rubs elbows with Degas and C zanne, fights in World War I, lands in New York with Breton, becomes a professional boxer, hangs out with Duchamp, and disappears in Cuba--or does he? Enter this remarkably imagined, enchanted world and discover the many delights of McGowan's marvelous creation. --Robin Lippincott, author of Blue Territory: A Meditation on the Life and Art of Joan Mitchell Lyrical, stunning, and deeply strange, Cate McGowan's novel concerns a shape-shifting protagonist, Jules Lalande. Lalande disappeared years ago: various people--his estranged wife Isobel Wright, journalist Titus Pidgeon, and the people Pidgeon interviews, including historical figures like Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp--chase his scent. McGowan's luminous novel tracks their efforts to conjure this enigmatic poet-painter-performance artist-thief-con man-duke-trauma victim-killer-healer. Twisty and original, These Lowly Objects is fundamentally about self-hood, its precariousness and perishability, and its surprising capacity for resurrection. --Kim Magowan, author of Undoing and The Light Source", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/64/467/226/164467226X_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "17.95", "online_price" : "17.95", "our_price" : "17.95", "club_price" : "17.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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