{"product_id":"panics-9781558612952","title":"Panics","description":"\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\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Molinard, Barbara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Feminist Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781558612952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Barbara Molinard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39861732900939,"sku":"9781558612952","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_4e282316-f0ef-472a-bfdf-37936b6af705.jpg?v=1663847110","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/panics-9781558612952","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}