{"product_id":"9781641297325","title":"List of All Possible Desires: A Novel in Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA dazzling novel in stories following Rainey Royal—a young artist coming of age through the tumult of New York City in the ’70s and ’80s—and her family across generations of obsession, betrayal, and reinvention, written with the trademark beauty and precision of Dylan Landis. For fans of Mary Gaitskill and Lauren Groff.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn postwar Paris, over the course of one fateful day, a boy’s crush on his nanny ignites into a destructive passion that burns into his memory and reveals to him the disquieting world of adult secrets. In 1950s New York City, a naïve caretaker struggles to protect her charge, a married woman paralyzed by her recent stroke, as new bruises appear each day on her body. In the 1970s, a fragile cousin wanders into the Royal family’s chaotic jazz-filled townhouse, where music, sex, and ruin intertwine. And at the heart of these stories is Rainey Royal herself, coming of age in Greenwich Village, inventing herself as an artist through the tumult of the ’70s and ’80s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns shocking, erotic, and deeply humane, \u003ci\u003eList of All Possible Desires\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting portrait of family and history. It is joined by the expanded re-issues of the novel \u003ci\u003eRainey Royal\u003c\/i\u003e and the novel in stories \u003ci\u003eNormal People Don’t Live Like This\u003c\/i\u003e to create the Rainey Royal Cycle. Each book stands on its own, yet together they echo and amplify each other, creating a world of almost unbearable richness and intensity.","brand":"Dylan Landis","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":48035308863700,"sku":"9781641297325","price":37.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1dbc45dc-8de7-47a0-9262-009b6905e3d4.jpg?v=1780352329","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781641297325","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}