{"product_id":"9781635901948","title":"Nicolas Pages","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn ode to mad love, awarded the Prix de Flore in 1999.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished in 1999 and awarded that year’s Prix de Flore, \u003ci\u003eNicolas Pages\u003c\/i\u003e marks a departure from the Sadean preoccupations of Guillaume Dustan’s first three novels; it is, in essence, a love story. Inspired by a failed romance with the Swiss artist-writer Nicolas Pages and collaging texts that Dustan initially produced for a wide variety of other occasions (magazine articles, short stories, project notes, shopping lists, and more), the “auto-\/bio-\/porno-graphic” prose of Nicolas Pages is by turns trashy and encyclopedic, corporeal and philosophical. Here Dustan inaugurates a “gay literature” that is no longer painful or shameful, but epicurean and cheerful without ever lapsing into idealism. A vibrant plea for gay rights and a tapestried text that is more than the sum of its many styles, \u003ci\u003eNicolas Pages\u003c\/i\u003e is a call to explore the body, sexuality, and writing in all their variety; it is a hymn to life, humanity, pleasure, and desire.","brand":"Guillaume Dustan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48438489874644,"sku":"9781635901948","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_2f519394-9102-41b5-a708-8f1ad0921d0c.jpg?v=1786150475","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781635901948","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}