{"product_id":"that-thing-you-do-with-david-shields-9781940450643","title":"That Thing You Do with Your Mouth: The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThat Thing You Do With Your Mouth, \u003c\/i\u003e actress and voice-over artist Samantha Matthews offers?in the form of an extended monologue, prompted and arranged by \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author (and Matthews's cousin once removed) David Shields?a vivid investigation of her startling sexual history. From her abuse at the hands of a family member to her present-day life in Barcelona, where she briefly moonlighted as a dubber of Italian pornography into English, Matthews reveals herself to be a darkly funny, deeply contemporary woman with a keen awareness of how her body has been routinely hijacked, and how she has been ?formatted\" by her early trauma. Her story is a study of her uneasy relationships with female desire, her tormentors, and her lovers?with whom she seeks out both the infliction and receipt of harm. This book is an attempt, sometimes self-thwarted, to break down barriers: sexual and emotional for Matthews, literary for Shields.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor them, the only response to the unspeakable is to speak, to do that thing you do with your mouth, as directly and honestly as possible. Their provocative performance refuses neat resolution or emotional pornography; it will have readers, from literary critics to \u003ci\u003eJezebel\u003c\/i\u003e commentators, raving, raging, celebrating, talking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Shields,Samantha Matthews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1940450640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781940450643\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McSweeney's\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.50w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2015","brand":"David Shields","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519665942783,"sku":"9781940450643","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8866cbcc-048a-454d-a46d-283f572e666e.jpg?v=1778738101","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/that-thing-you-do-with-david-shields-9781940450643","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}