{"product_id":"distance-gerben-letzer-9789090425078","title":"Distance","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome grief cannot be spoken aloud. Some losses have no official name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen someone close to him dies suddenly, Andrew Irvine is left with something worse than heartbreak: a grief he cannot explain to anyone. Not to his wife. Not to his oldest friend. Not even, quite, to himself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew is a Scottish literature professor at Columbia: a man who quotes Shakespeare instinctively and feels most alive in a classroom or a pub. He is also, it turns out, a man of extraordinary self-deception. As his marriage quietly unravels and he spars with a therapist he is determined to outwit, the full weight of what he has lost begins to surface. And with it, what he never knew he was losing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDistance \u003c\/em\u003eis a darkly funny, deeply felt novel about the things we carry alone. About love that doesn't fit the approved categories. About marriage as a long and mutual forgetting. About the performance of being fine when nothing is fine at all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in fragments, flashbacks, and stolen moments of honesty, it moves between New York and Scotland, between grief and dark comedy. Sincere and ironic at once, heartbroken and funny, sometimes in the same sentence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA portrait of a man who has spent a lifetime keeping people at arm's length. And who is only now beginning to understand the cost. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFunny, honest, and quietly devastating\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDistance \u003c\/em\u003eis metamodern in the truest sense: aching sincerely while laughing at its own absurdity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerben Letzer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9090425071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789090425078\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ceci n'Est Pas Un Editeur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.43d","brand":"Gerben Letzer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48743265566975,"sku":"9789090425078","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/distance-gerben-letzer-9789090425078","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}