{"product_id":"9781555977429","title":"So Much for That Winter : Novellas","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eSo Much for That Winter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Dorthe Nors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorthe Nors follows up her acclaimed story collection \u003ci\u003eKarate \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eChop\u003c\/i\u003e  with a pair of novellas that playfully chart the aftermath of two very  twenty-first-century romances. In \"Days,\" a woman in her late thirties  records her life in a series of lists, giving shape to the tumult of her  days--one moment she is eating an apple, the next she is on the floor,  howling like a dog. As the details accumulate, we experience with her  the full range of emotions: anger, loneliness, regret, pain, and also  joy, as the lists become a way to understand, connect to, and rebuild  her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"Minna Needs Rehearsal Space,\" a novella  told in headlines, an avant-garde musician is dumped via text  message. Fleeing the indignity of the breakup and friends who flaunt  their achievements in life, career, and family, Minna unfriends people  on Facebook, listens to Bach, and reads Ingmar Bergman, then decamps to an  island near Sweden, \"well suited to mental catharsis.\" A cheeky nod to  the listicles and bulletins we scroll through on a daily basis, \u003ci\u003eSo Much for That Winter\u003c\/i\u003e  explores how we shape and understand experience, and the disconnection  and dislocation that define our twenty-first-century lives, with Nors's  unique wit and humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA PUBLIC SPACE BOOK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFORMALLY INVENTIVE AND EMOTIONALLY CHARGED NOVELLAS BY “A MAJOR NEW VOICE IN EUROPEAN LITERATURE” (\u003ci\u003eBOOK TRUST\u003c\/i\u003e)  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“How often can we honestly say that a book is unlike anything else? Yet here it is, unique in form and effect.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eSo Much for That Winter\u003c\/i\u003e is] one of the speediest and most intriguing of this year’s summer books. . . . The rhythm of Nors’ work, shaped from headlines, fragments and status updates, is eerily familiar. Her innovative novellas hold a mirror to our disjointed times.”—\u003cb\u003eBBC \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Nors’ writing is by turns witty, gut wrenching, stark and lyrical. Her characters seesaw between longing for human connection and the space in which to lick their wounds. That she achieves all this while experimenting with form is something of an impossible feat. . . . Nors has created an exciting and artful literary diptych.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSo Much for That Winter \u003c\/i\u003eis not only about our hyperconnected yet atomized times but ingeniously of them as well. The novellas are daring formal experiments that simultaneously evoke and critique the feeling of online life.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nors' use of unconventional storytelling forms beautifully illustrates how modern life has both veered from tradition and become constrained by its conventions. . . . With her keen eye fixed on the power of small, everyday moments, \u003ci\u003eSo Much for that Winter\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful reminder, both in form and function, of the unexpected joys present in each day.\"\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eCedar Rapids Gazette \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Though they make up the traffic of our online lives, lists and headlines have never felt so alive, so uncomfortable, so raw as they do when Nors writes them.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSeattle Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Dorthe Nors] experiments with form as a means to explore the rich inner lives of her characters. There’s great humor and unflinching pathos in her examination of modern life in all of its absurdity and loneliness.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBOMB Magazine \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dorthe Nors’s unique narrative style underlines both the loneliness of her characters and the jarring discontinuity of life in a postmodern world.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Nors is a wholly unique voice in contemporary literature: a maximalist working within minimalist forms, hammering her prose into those shapes that will better amplify its power.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eSo Much For That Winter\u003c\/i\u003e presents] an edgy evocation of contemporary life. Nors is a creator of small spaces; her fiction is relentless, edgy, brief.\"\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMinna Needs Rehearsal Space\u003c\/i\u003e shows Nors’s economy and perceptiveness. . . . The reader is treated to a cathartic and suspenseful climax.\"\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If forevermore we are obliged to think in headlines and status updates, let us sound like Dorthe Nors.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookswept \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nors addresses crucial questions of contemporary existence with great humor and humanity. . . . Nors' gaze is intimate and unflinching as she examines the isolation that arises from a plugged-in world.\"— \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSycamore Review \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In [\u003ci\u003eSo Much for That Winter\u003c\/i\u003e] there is inventiveness and motion, angst and loss, puzzles and minor epiphanies. . . . Nors packs much into her telegraphic works. . . . [The novellas] contain despair, grief, family conflicts, aesthetic pursuits, and the mundane; the two narrators are present, flesh, bone, heart, and spirit.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNumero Cinq \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Until 2016, I never realized that what was missing from my life was a pair of formally experimental novellas, \u003ci\u003eSo Much for That Winter\u003c\/i\u003e, translated from Danish, about contemporary loneliness and isolation. Dorthe Nors' formal innovation is playful but organic and necessary, entwined with character and subject. The writing is emotionally direct, unsentimental, and surprisingly moving. Genuine newness is always an achievement.”\u003cb\u003e—Chris Bachelder, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2016 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A pair of novellas that are fantastically new in form yet have heart, slyness and soul. . . . Together, these delicate, delightful, moving novellas are rooted in soul-depths rarely plumbed with such glancing light.”\u003cb\u003e—Jane Alison, author of \u003ci\u003eNine Island \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dorthe Nors’s novella ‘Minna Needs Rehearsal Space,’ in her book \u003ci\u003eSo Much for That Winter\u003c\/i\u003e, set off fireworks in my brain: it’s a story told in one- or two-sentence headlines. I loved the way that the mostly one-line paragraphs marched down the page in prickly self-containment, with a lot of white space that demands a certain kind of attention from the reader.”\u003cb\u003e—Lauren Groff, author of \u003ci\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Simply gorgeous.”—\u003cb\u003eMax Porter, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrief Is the Thing With Feathers \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“So Much for That Winter\u003c\/i\u003e is uniquely composed, yet eminently readable. Nors's experimental style permits a sidelong glance, not only into perhaps the scaffolding upon which stories are built, but also the spaces between things—much as a painting or song reveals itself in the interims between brushstrokes or notes.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jeremy Garber, Powell’s City of Books, Portland, OR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781555977429\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40596386414798,"sku":"9781555977429","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781555977429","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}