{"product_id":"revolver-robyn-schiff-9781587296956","title":"Revolver","description":"As restless, reckless, and precise as the Colt revolver for which it is named, Robyn Schiff's \u003ci\u003eRevolver \u003c\/i\u003e\"repeats fire without reloading\" as it reckons with the array of foreboding objects displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the traces of their ghosts one hundred years later. \u003cbr\u003e A dirge on the Singer Sewing Machine, an exuberant and unnerving rumination on multipurpose campaign furniture, and a breathless account of Ralph Lauren's silver Porsche 550 Spyder are among the collection's exhilarating corporate histories, urgent fantasias, and agonizing love poems. The long, lavish, and utterly unpredictable sentences that Schiff has assembled contort as much to discover what can't be contained as what can. \u003cbr\u003e This is a book of extremes relentlessly contemporary in scope. And like the eighty-blade sportsman's knife also described here, \u003ci\u003eRevolver\u003c\/i\u003e keeps opening and reopening to the daunting possibilities of transformation--\"Splayed it is a bouquet of all the ways a point mutates.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e \"Silverware by J. A. Henckels\"\u003cbr\u003eLet me be \u003cbr\u003eas streamlined as my knife when I say this.\u003cbr\u003eAs cold as my three-pronged fork that \u003cbr\u003ecools the meat even as it steadies it.\u003cbr\u003eA pettiness in me was honed \u003cbr\u003ein this cutlers' town, later bombed, \u003cbr\u003ein which Adolf Eichmann, who was born there\u003cbr\u003ealongside my wedding pattern, could hear\u003cbr\u003ethe constant sharpening of knives \u003cbr\u003elike some children hear the corn in their hometowns\u003cbr\u003etalking to them through the wind.\u003cbr\u003eThe horizon is just the score they breathe through\u003cbr\u003elike a box of chickens \u003cbr\u003ebreathing through a slit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robyn Schiff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1587296950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781587296956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 6.00w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2008 pg. 46","brand":"Robyn Schiff","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44071647084799,"sku":"9781587296956","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_217b027e-eb2e-4515-84f3-38b1d2f331d4.jpg?v=1685437337","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/revolver-robyn-schiff-9781587296956","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}