{"product_id":"pathemata-9781529951363","title":"Pathemata : Or, The Story of My Mouth","description":"\u003cp\u003eA profound and deeply personal exploration of pain, the body and loss by the beloved author of Bluets and The Argonauts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Full of warmth, wisdom and weirdness' JENNY MUSTARD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePathemata recounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Maggie Nelson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I remember where I was when I read each of Maggie Nelson’s books in the same way I remember a place where I heard important news’ ANNE ENRIGHT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Always brilliant’ GEOFF DYER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation’ OLIVIA LAING\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Maggie Nelson\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutobiography: literary, Memoirs, Sociology: family \u0026amp; relationships, Sociology: death \u0026amp; dying, Coping with illness \u0026amp; specific conditions, Coping with death \u0026amp; bereavement\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 14 May 2026 by Vintage Publishing.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Maggie Nelson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320568258938,"sku":"9781529951363","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781529951363.jpg?v=1790657941","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/pathemata-9781529951363","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}