{"product_id":"christine-smallwood-the-life-of-the-mind-9781787704268","title":"The Life of the Mind","description":"***A TIME MAGAZINE, LITHUB, WHITE REVIEW BEST BOOK OF 2021*** \"200 pages of serious entertainment.\" -The Times The Life of the Mind opens with Dorothy sitting on a library toilet, checking her phone and examining the \"thick, curdled knots of string\" coming out of her body. No one but her boyfriend knows that she's had a miscarriage, not even her therapists-Dorothy has two of them. An adjunct professor of English in New York City with no hope of finding a permanent position, Dorothy's stuck, unable to envision the future or cut ties with the past. \"What did you call it,\" she asks herself, \"when a life stopped developing, but it didn't end?\" Christine Smallwood's debut is a campus novel like no other. Piercingly intelligent and darkly hilarious, it moves from a classroom to an underwater puppet show, from a conference in Las Vegas to a karaoke party. It is a discomforting glimpse into the head of a brilliant woman on the edge, it is a novel about endings: of youth, of professional aspiration, of possibility, of the illusion that our minds can ever free us from the tyranny of our bodies.","brand":"Europa Editions UK Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53496271241558,"sku":"9781787704268-V","price":3.97,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53402035683670,"sku":"9781787704268-G","price":3.94,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/christine-smallwood-the-life-of-the-mind-9781787704268","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}