{"product_id":"divorcing","title":"Divorcing","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNovember 2020 selection of the NYRB Classics Book Club.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eDream and reality overlap in \u003ci\u003eDivorcing\u003c\/i\u003e, a book in which divorce is not just a question of a broken marriage but names a rift that runs right through the inner and outer worlds of Sophie Blind, its brilliant but desperate protagonist. Can the rift be mended? Perhaps in the form of a novel, one that goes back from present-day New York to Sophie’s childhood in pre–World War II Budapest, that revisits the divorce between her Freudian father and her fickle mother, and finds a place for a host of further tensions and contradictions in her present life. The question that haunts \u003ci\u003eDivorcing\u003c\/i\u003e, however, is whether any novel can be fleet and bitter and true and light enough to gather up all the darkness of a given life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSusan Taubes’s startlingly original novel was published in 1969 but largely ignored at the time; after the author’s tragic early death, it was forgotten. Its republication presents a chance to discover a splintered, glancing, caustic, and lyrical work by a dazzlingly intense and inventive writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47053696860299,"sku":"9781681374949","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/6892\/5323\/files\/10-Divorcing.jpg?v=1779444078","url":"https:\/\/b0xrri-gd.myshopify.com\/products\/divorcing","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}