{"product_id":"postcard-for-annie-1","title":"Postcard for Annie","description":"\u003cp\u003eIda Jessen follows the inner lives of several women on the brink, or the sidelines, of catastrophe in this prize-winning collection of stories\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten with the same narrative generosity, the same belief in the dignity and voice of her characters as Marilynne Robinson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the winner of the Lifetime Award from the Danish Arts Foundation and the 2017 Critics’ Choice Award, Ida Jessen’s A Postcard for Annie traces the tangled emotional lives of women facing moral dilemmas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young woman witnesses a terrible accident with unexpected consequences, a mother sits with her unconscious son in a hospital room, a pair of sisters remember their mother’s hands braiding their hair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn seaside tourist villages and in snowy cities, turbulence destabilizes composed lives, whether through outright violence between strangers or habitual domination between loved ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJessen fills each story with bracing passages that teem with the living world, only to become concentrated in the unfixed, vacillating matter of a human psyche caught between silence and speech, paralysis and action. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: USA, 2022\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Archipelago Books\u003cbr\u003ePages: 180\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781953861221\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1953861229\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Ida Jessen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49703927120138,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781953861221.jpg?v=1722599987","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/postcard-for-annie-1","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}