{"product_id":"la-medusa-vanessa-place-9781573661454","title":"La Medusa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLa Medusa\u003c\/i\u003e is a polyphonic novel of post-conceptual consciousness. At the heart of the whole floats Medusa, an androgynous central awareness that anchors the novel throughout. La Medusa is at once the city of Los Angeles, with its snaking freeways and serpentine shifts between reality and illusion, and a brain--a modern mind that is both expansive and penetrating in its obsessions and perceptions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVanessa Place's characters--a trucker and his wife, a nine-year-old saxophonist, an ice cream vendor, a sex worker, and a corpse, among others--are borderless selves in a borderless city, a city impossible to contain. Her expert ventriloquism and explosive imagination anchor this epic narrative in language that is fierce and vibrant, a penetrating a cross-section of contemporary Los Angeles and a cross-section of the modern mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanessa Place\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1573661457\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573661454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e F2c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 1.40d","brand":"Vanessa Place","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043618779391,"sku":"9781573661454","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0ed11c69-082a-4a7c-a679-3cb81d381e43.jpg?v=1684968202","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/la-medusa-vanessa-place-9781573661454","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}