{"product_id":"intimacy-a-novel","title":"Intimacy","description":"In this melancholy novel about a man on the brink of suicide, Stanley Crawford allows readers to question what it really means to be close to a person. \u003cem\u003eIntimacy\u003c\/em\u003e follows an unnamed narrator planning his own death. His preparations become a trigger and occasion for him to revisit key moments in his life and his material possessions, which are the solid artifacts from his life’s journey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs sparrows in flight might form a single arrow, the life of the narrator comes into focus as a collage of fleeting events and images. Readers gain insights into tiny moments that slowly build into a picture of a man who seems to have very little, aside from material possessions, to lose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe narrative pulls the reader along a trail of digressions—about running shoes, about the symbolism of rings—that lead down a proverbial rabbit hole until we realize the narrator’s intentions. Despite our lack of concrete knowledge about the narrator’s life, he allows us to share his thought processes: how every thought leads to the next, how memories seep upward when he picks up a particular T-shirt, or when he glimpses his car keys. And alongside our growing understanding of the narrator comes a recognition of our own thought processes: how we, like him, relate to our bodies; how we, too, cannot break away from the constant motion of our thoughts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntimacy\u003c\/em\u003e is a brief, intense novel charged with the heightened sense of closeness that comes from watching a man’s last hours. It illuminates how brief snapshots of memory can trace the outline of an entire life.","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32019088244819,"sku":"","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781573660549_d6db1e5c-ea9a-4ee5-b924-99d10a20b7e6.jpg?v=1779516031","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/intimacy-a-novel","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}