{"product_id":"couplets-a-love-story-by-maggie-millner","title":"Couplets : A Love Story by Maggie Millner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaggie Millner's electrifying debut is a coming-of-age love story, a story of coming out and a story of coming apart. A woman in her late twenties leaves a long-term relationship with a boyfriend for another woman. The affair thrusts her from an outwardly conventional life into queerness, polyamory, kink, and unalloyed, consuming desire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten in rhyming couplets with disarming frankness, what ensues is an exploration of obsession, gender, identity-making, sexual experiment, and the art and act of literary transformation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Couplets: A Love Story\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'An astounding debut . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea book that seduces the brain . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMillner's couplets enact high-wire acts of wit and poignancy.' NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'I've never read a better encapsulation of what it means to question a previously fixed idea of identity and selfhood.' VOGUE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Millner's ultimate achievement is to draw open the distance . . .between the self that one takes as given and the self, no less true, that one cannot help but make.' NEW YORKER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Millner is brilliant at showing how early moments of lust can be existentially unmooring.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.. Couplets is deft, delicate and unexpectedly fun.' GUARDIAN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Maggie Millner's Couplets absolutely blew me away. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBreathing new life into that most familiar of poetic forms, she recounts the difficulties inherent in making ourselves vulnerable to another person with precision and guile.' JAMES CONOR PATTERSON\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Mount Florida Books Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45492393607412,"sku":"9780571391653","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9780571391653.jpg?v=1718880233","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.live\/products\/couplets-a-love-story-by-maggie-millner","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}