{"product_id":"aliens-anorexia","title":"Aliens \u0026 Anorexia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt's 1996, and Chris Kraus is in Berlin, seeking a distributor for her film \u003cem\u003eGravity \u0026amp; Grace\u003c\/em\u003e, described alternately as 'an experimental 16mm film about hope, despair, religious feeling and conviction' and 'an amateur intellectual's home video expanded to bulimic lengths'.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt's 1942 in Marseille, and Simone Weil is waiting for the US entry visa that will save her from the Holocaust, while writing work described alternately as a 'radical philosophy of sadness' and 'immoral, trite, irrelevant and paradoxical'. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt's the late 90s, the millennium is approaching, and Chris Kraus is in Los Angeles, not eating, waiting for her s\/m partner to reply to her emails. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt's 1943, and Simone Weil is in London, completing her project of transcendence by dying of starvation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFilled with Chris Kraus' trademark wit and frankness, unfolding to reveal the lives of ecstatic visionaries and failed artists, \u003cem\u003eAliens \u0026amp; Anorexia\u003c\/em\u003e is an audacious novel about failure, empathy and sadness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chris Kraus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40932874485922,"sku":"9781788160070","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-2023-07-01T134452.224.png?v=1688215503","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/aliens-anorexia","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}