{"product_id":"love-and-the-mess-were-in-by-stephen-marche","title":"Love and the Mess We're In by Stephen Marche","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-86d310b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent e-lazyloaded\" data-id=\"86d310b\" data-element_type=\"container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"e-con-inner\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35ec86d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"35ec86d\" data-element_type=\"container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d3f202 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-woocommerce-product-content\" data-id=\"6d3f202\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"woocommerce-product-content.default\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-widget-container\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Viv flies to Buenos Aires for a secret liaison with Clive, there is no ambiguity as to their intentions—adultery. But this is where conventionality terminates in Stephen Marche’s new novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove and the Mess We’re In\u003c\/em\u003e, a work whose lyric richness and inventiveness skillfully embody the tumbles and turns of love in a postmodern age. Marche collaborates with award-winning typographer Andrew Steeves to create richly polyschematic book pages whose influences range from the interwoven texts, geometric shaping and pattern-making of Hebraic calligraphy, illuminated manuscripts and incunabular typography to the ordered tangle of a New York City subway map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViv’s husband, Tim, is Clive’s best friend. A breakdown has landed Tim in a mental institution, seemingly beyond recovery. His collapse brings Viv and Clive together in their grief, at a loss to navigate the loneliness, guilt, lust and, perhaps, love which they discover in their unsettling and morally ambiguous new context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove and the Mess We’re In\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an evocative, lithe story of love and redemption infused with Marche’s wit, insight and telescopic emotional range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a20146c elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"a20146c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-widget-container\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d036916 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"d036916\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-widget-container\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f5a4a2b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent e-lazyloaded\" data-id=\"f5a4a2b\" data-element_type=\"container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"e-con-inner\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-60ba80c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"60ba80c\" data-element_type=\"container\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7dcfa95 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7dcfa95\" data-element_type=\"container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-364dd19 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"364dd19\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-widget-container\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"praise_text\"\u003eSo dazzling, so unsentimental… A work that is both beautiful and confusing. In other words, an honest love story. —\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"praise_text\"\u003eStephen Marche is capable of writing… any darn thing he wants. —\u003cem\u003eThe Globe \u0026amp; Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"praise_text\"\u003eThis country’s master creator of parallel universes. —Philip Marchand,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe National Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Nottawa Cottage Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42494435590231,"sku":"9781554471072","price":28.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/6488\/2007\/files\/LoveandtheMessWe_reIn.webp?v=1769191599","url":"https:\/\/nottawacottagebookstore.ca\/products\/love-and-the-mess-were-in-by-stephen-marche","provider":"Nottawa Cottage Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}