{"product_id":"book-i1xb","title":"Back","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcclaimed \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e contributor Lauren Michele Jackson delivers an essay collection devoted to the back—and the conflicting ideas we load onto it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving across literature, film, sport, visual art, and U.S. history, Jackson probes how the back has carries powerful ideas about beauty, gender, labor, race, and political solidarity. Here the back emerges as a site of vulnerability and desire, embodiment and rhetoric, dependence and resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJackson’s prose effortlessly shifts between conversational and intellectual, inviting readers into digressions that illuminate rather than distract in a set of ranging essays, alighting upon subjects such as bodybuilding, ballet, portrait photography, \u003ci\u003eGone With the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, horse racing, copyright law, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBack\u003c\/i\u003e opens a broad door onto the body as both structure and metaphor, linking artistic and political representation through a mutual attention to what—and who—is made to bear weight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":66636951847216,"sku":"ZEi1xb","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":66636951879984,"sku":"ZMi1xb","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook [BD]","offer_id":66636951912752,"sku":"BDi1xb","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/i1xb-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779325614","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-i1xb","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}