{"product_id":"9781648211744","title":"Stranger Beauty: A Novel","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eGasda, Matthew\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eArcade\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9\/8\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet in a future that grows more plausible by the day, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eStranger Beauty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e asks what traces will remain after a life has ended.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are novels that describe consciousness and novels that enact it. \u003ci\u003eStranger Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e is of the latter. With its narrative spun out of three notebooks, an embedded screenplay, and a final monologue delivered by an AI that has legally consumed a dead man’s life’s work, Matthew Gasda’s formally daring prose carries a powerful emotional resonance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe architecture of the novel is not a stunt. Each section burrows, dreamlike, into a single psyche through repetition, contradiction, and the slow surfacing of things that were never meant to be seen. A marriage as alchemy. A brother lost to madness who emerges as the moral center of everything. And an artificial rendering of a man that speaks with more honesty than the living ever managed to accomplish.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ambitious and original novel, \u003ci\u003eStranger Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e is also deeply heartbreaking.","brand":"Arcade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48203225628927,"sku":"9781648211744","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/Jacket_be8077cd-60f8-493e-b6b0-11b2ed338de5.jpg?v=1773845171","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781648211744","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}