{"product_id":"spent-light-lara-pawson-9781968671440","title":"Spent Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Domestic objects lead to intimate memories and troubled histories in this glorious, genre-bending book.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unnamed woman contemplates the toaster she's inherited from a neighbor. A homely, useful sort of object, hardly worthy of a sonnet or still-life. And yet, thinking of where its parts originated, who assembled it, and how it arrived at her door, could it not be considered as much a source of awe as any waterfall of battlefield? Numbed as she may be by life, can she still see fear in a handful of crumbs?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is nothing else in contemporary fiction quite like this quest to think through the common objects making up a comfortable, middle-class life, seeing in them all the \"global networks of resource extraction and forced labour, technologies of industrial murder, histories of genocide, alongside traditions of craft, the pleasures of convenience and dexterity, the giving and receiving of affection and care.\" (Jennifer Hodgson)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn atomized \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e, featuring a narrator imprisoned and finally freed by her unrelenting focus on the tiniest details of modern living--part smelly, bodily struggle; part digital, frictionless ease--\u003ci\u003eSpent Light\u003c\/i\u003e, here accompanied by a new foreword by Teju Cole, stands as a masterly anatomy of our moment in time, politically, poetically, and personally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lara Pawson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1968671447\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781968671440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McNally Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Lara Pawson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437673558271,"sku":"9781968671440","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_32ed655a-28eb-4361-b015-cbb8990fb699.jpg?v=1777163322","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spent-light-lara-pawson-9781968671440","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}