{"product_id":"panics-1","title":"Panics","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradictions of the twentieth-century female experience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eA close friend and protégé of Marguerite Duras, Barbara Molinard (1921–1986) wrote and wrote feverishly, but only managed to publish one book in her lifetime: the surreal, nightmarish collection \u003cem\u003ePanics\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThese thirteen stories beat with a frantic, off-kilter rhythm as Molinard obsesses over sickness, death, and control. A woman becomes transfixed by a boa constrictor at her local zoo, mysterious surgeons dismember their patient, and the author narrates to Duras how she was stopped from sleeping in a cemetery vault, only to be haunted by the pain of sleeping on its stone floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIn the unsettling tradition of Franz Kafka, Djuna Barnes, Leonara Carrington, and more, \u003cem\u003ePanics\u003c\/em\u003e recovers the work of a tormented writer who often destroyed her writing as soon as she produced it, and whose insights into violence, mental illness, and bodily autonomy are simultaneously absurdist and razor-sharp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313259192702,"sku":"NW9781558612952","price":11.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781558612952.jpg?v=1778516096","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/panics-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}