{"product_id":"notice-paperback-2","title":"Notice - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHeather Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMelissa Febos\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA classic queer text of trauma, written by one of the most talented novelists of her generation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe reason it's never just once is the same reason money's only a part of it. Most anyone can take or leave that, though they don't think they can. The cover story of all time, that's what money is. The excuse of excuses no one will question because they so much need to use it themselves.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished by Doubleday in 1994, Heather Lewis's chilling debut novel took place on the northeastern equestrian show-riding circuit, to which Lewis herself belonged in her teens. Expelled from boarding school, its fifteen-year-old narrator moves numbly through a world of motel rooms, heroin, dyke love, and doped horses. \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e found it \"brutal, sensual, honest, seductive ... a powerful debut,\" while the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e found the book \"grating and troublesome ... it's difficult to imagine a more passive specimen.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlmost immediately, Lewis began writing \u003ci\u003eNotice\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel that moves even further into dark territory. The teenaged narrator Nina begins turning tricks in the parking lot of the train station near the Westchester County home of her absent parents. She soon falls into a sadomasochistic relationship with a couple. Arrested, she's saved by a counselor and admitted to a psychiatric facility. But these soft forms of control turn out to be even worse. Writing in the register of an emotional fugue state, \u003ci\u003eNotice\u003c\/i\u003e's helpless but all-knowing narrator is as smooth and sharp as a knife. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRejected by every publisher who read it during Lewis's life, \u003ci\u003eNotice\u003c\/i\u003e was eventually published by Serpent's Tail in 2004, two years after her death. The book, long out of print, emerged as a classic queer text of trauma, written by one of the most talented novelists of her generation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeather Lewis was born in 1962 and attended Sarah Lawrence College. She was the author of \u003ci\u003eHouse Rules\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Second Suspect\u003c\/i\u003e and contributed to several anthologies. She ended her life in 2002. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMelissa Febos is the author of four books, including the nationally bestselling essay collection, \u003ci\u003eGirlhood\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and named a notable book of 2021 by NPR, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. Her craft book, \u003ci\u003eBody Work\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), was also a national bestseller, an \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, and an Indie Next Pick. Her fifth book, \u003ci\u003eThe Dry Season\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736500768831,"sku":"9781635902044","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/54334fda3aa5c002ec7c9c23e4cfd1c8.webp?v=1765146873","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/notice-paperback-2","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}