{"product_id":"odette-elix-england-odette-england-9798985733068","title":"Odette Elix England: Isn't X Beautiful!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Xanax to Xanadu to Kodak Double X, Odette England's photographic memoir-cum-meditation is a reckoning with childhood, memory and the meaning of images\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriter and artist Odette Elix England (born 1975) first crossed paths with photography--and, crucially, the letter X--as a child on her family's 200-acre dairy farm in Southern Australia, watching her sharecropping father make SX-70 Polaroids of cattle in the springtime. In \u003ci\u003eIsn't X Beautiful!\u003c\/i\u003e, an autobiographical reckoning with family memory, the fate of that plot of land and the history of photography are tangled and bound at every turn with the ubiquitous letter X: shadowy character, placeholder for nothing and everything, age-old stand-in for the indefinable. Teeming with free-associative factoids, humor and philosophical tangents, and written with the obsessive idiosyncrasy of Tim Carpenter's \u003ci\u003eTo Photograph Is to Learn How to Die\u003c\/i\u003e, England's ambling 10-chapter tale is an extended meditation on the blind spots of personal narrative and the functions (and limitations) of photography in our personal and creative lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Odette England\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798985733068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ice Plant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Odette England","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48454300795135,"sku":"9798985733068","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_68f1446a-4506-40b8-948b-c12f0d180910.jpg?v=1777305371","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/odette-elix-england-odette-england-9798985733068","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}