{"product_id":"book-dqcc","title":"Mauve Desert","description":" \u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1987, Nicole Brossard’s classic novel returns in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, \u003ci\u003eMauve Desert\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for readers and writers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is both a single novel and three separate novels in one. In the first, \u003ci\u003eMauve Desert\u003c\/i\u003e, fifteen-year-old Mélanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor chasing fear and desire, cutting loose from her mother and her mother's lover, Lorna, in their roadside Mauve Motel. In the second book, Maudes Laures reads Mauve Desert, becomes obsessed with it, and embarks on an extraordinary quest for its mysterious author, characters and meaning. The third book – \u003ci\u003eMauve, the Horizon\u003c\/i\u003e - is Laures's eventual translation of \u003ci\u003eMauve Desert\u003c\/i\u003e. Like all good translations, it is both the same and revealingly different from the original.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicole Brossard's writing is agile and inventive; from moment to moment gripping, exhilarating and erotic. Her language drifts and swells like sand dunes in a desert, cresting and accumulating into a landscape that shifts like wind and words; she translates the practice of translation, the pulse of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country’s greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECW Press Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49376784154928,"sku":"BDdqcc","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/195825-dqcc-Square.jpg?v=1734892818","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dqcc","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}