{"product_id":"backwardness-garielle-lutz-9781940853505","title":"Backwardness: From Letters and Notebooks, 1973-2023","description":"\u003cp\u003eBackwardness is a selection of heartbreakingly hilarious excerpts from an epistolary and notebook chronicle, spanning half a century, of working-stiff miserabilia and the dark enchantments of life as a misfit. First published in 2024 by SF\/LD Books, this is a revised and expanded reissue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Out of those gray middling years of the late twentieth century is etched this unlikely portrait of a genuine queerdo, back before anyone knew what that was-let alone Lutz herself. [ . . . ] Reading this book fundamentally alters one's understanding of the author's short stories, with their self-deprecating narrators erecting exasperatingly droll and verbose linguistic monuments out of the banalities of their everyday lives-and gives us Lutz herself as a character, inherently lovable through the smog of her flaws.\"-Art Forum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Garielle Lutz is one of America's great writers. Why has her literary genius gone unnoticed?\"-The Nation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Garielle Lutz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1940853508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781940853505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Calamari Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.49d","brand":"Garielle Lutz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47244469174527,"sku":"9781940853505","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9dceaa37-449e-4e14-8360-54a7232a6269.jpg?v=1758135824","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/backwardness-garielle-lutz-9781940853505","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}