{"product_id":"desire-thom-palmer-9780595432356","title":"Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003eA well-known and celebrated man of American letters, Anton Lotus has spent the last few decades living anonymously in a small, semi-rural Pennsylvania town. After years of rather unabashed, libertine behavior, he finds himself faced with the curious and perhaps ironic circumstance of testing HIV positive at the age of eighty-three.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLotus's physician refers him to a female counselor. Unaware of his true identity, she recommends that he engage in \"scriptotherapy\" as part of his treatment. Rather than write about this illness, Lotus-stubbornly unsentimental-instead uses the activity to write about the great pleasures and passions of his full life: a hymn of desire, which he claims has been his guiding impulse and motivation, and the pursuit of which he deems his true vocation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLotus constructs his memoir using four different narrative techniques-a parody of his modernist roots-and creates multiple layers of autobiography that are often associative as well as chronological, following the habits of his memory. Above all, Desire is a comic novel that ostensibly focuses on sexual desire but ultimately celebrates art, love, and the complex but singular experience of living.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thom Palmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0595432352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780595432356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.39d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thom Palmer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44652100190463,"sku":"9780595432356","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a1393068-4f9b-4e61-992c-ce7dab28bf45.jpg?v=1704214570","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/desire-thom-palmer-9780595432356","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}