{"product_id":"couplets-9780374612818","title":"Couplets","description":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cb\u003eAn astounding debut.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAdrienne Raphel, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dazzling love story in poems about one woman’s coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: of being seduced by a throng of older women, of kissing a friend in a dorm-room closet. But the dreams are private, not real.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne night, she meets another woman at a bar, and an escape hatch swings open in the floor of her life. She falls into a consuming affair—into queerness, polyamory, kink, power and loss, humiliation and freedom, and an enormous surge of desire that lets her leave herself behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaggie Millner’s captivating, seductive debut is a love story in poems that explores obsession, gender, identity, and the art and act of literary transformation. In rhyming couplets and prose vignettes, \u003ci\u003eCouplets \u003c\/i\u003echronicles the strictures, structures, and pitfalls of relationships—the mirroring, the pleasing, the small jealousies and disappointments—and how the people we love can show us who we truly are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An endlessly inventive, wise, exhilarating book.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Garth Greenwell, author of \u003ci\u003eCleanness \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhat Belongs to You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maggie Millner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56511722619222,"sku":"9780374612818","price":92.0,"currency_code":"PLN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9780374612818.jpg?v=1794089313","url":"https:\/\/www.englishbook.pl\/products\/couplets-9780374612818","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}