{"product_id":"the-water-statues","title":"The Water Statues by Jaeggy, Fleur","description":"Even among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, \u003cem\u003eThe Water Statues\u003c\/em\u003e is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth's odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the \u003cem\u003edramatis personae\u003c\/em\u003e include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man named Beeklam, a wealthy recluse who keeps statues in his villa's flooded basement, where memories shiver in uncertain light and the waters run off to the sea.\u003cbr\u003e Dedicated to Ingeborg Bachmann and fleshed out with Jaeggy's austere yet voluptuous style, \u003cem\u003eThe Water Statues\u003c\/em\u003e--with its band of deracinated, loosely related souls (milling about as often in the distant past as in the mansion's garden full of intoxicated snails)--delivers like a slap an indelible picture of the swampiness of family life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fleur Jaeggy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.07h x 5.16w x 0.35d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811229753\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/05\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2021","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43656822161561,"sku":"9780811229753","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0572\/3367\/0297\/files\/img_49387682-938f-4716-a1df-849f15a8fd5e.jpg?v=1724608273","url":"https:\/\/bookmarksretail.store\/products\/the-water-statues","provider":"Bookmarks Retail","version":"1.0","type":"link"}