{"product_id":"a-brief-history-of-yes-micheline-aharonian-marcom-9781564788498","title":"A Brief History of Yes","description":"\u003cp\u003eMicheline Marcom describes her newest novel, \"A Brief History of Yes\"--her first since 2008's scathing and erotic \"The Mirror in the Well\"--as a \"literary fado,\" referring to a style of Portuguese music that, akin to the American blues, is often melancholic and soulful, and encapsulates the feeling of \"saudade\"--meaning, loosely, yearning and nostalgia for something or someone irreparably lost. \"A Brief History of Yes\" tells the story of the break-up between a Portuguese woman named Maria and an unnamed American man: it is a collage-like, fragmentary novel whose form perfectly captures the workings of attraction and grief, proving once again that American literature has no better poet of love and loss than Micheline Aharonian Marcom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Micheline Aharonian Marcom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1564788490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781564788498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.49h x 5.58w x 0.39d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/22\/2013\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Micheline Aharonian Marcom","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939659251967,"sku":"9781564788498","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4bae0ec8-3f6e-4119-8202-c99a95075733.jpg?v=1681442767","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-brief-history-of-yes-micheline-aharonian-marcom-9781564788498","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}