{"product_id":"labarge-emily-dog-days","title":"LaBarge, Emily - Dog Days","description":"The Good Story may be every story you write, but the Good Story is also not your story.\nDuring the Christmas break of 2009, while on holiday with her family, Emily LaBarge was held hostage for two days.\nIt was a freak and harrowing occurrence which sent a series of emotional, intellectual and psychological ripples through the\nyears that followed. In Dog Days, LaBarge attempts to confront form, voice, structure, genre and expectation to think\nthrough how a person can make sense of a rupture in their life: when something bad happens, how do you make it cohere?\nHow do you sew it up into a good story?\nPicking apart conventional trauma narratives though her engagement with artists and writers from David Lynch to Sylvia\nPlath, from Philip Glass to Bernadette Mayer, Dog Days tests how capacious an essay might be. It is a book about finding a\nway to write what happened which preserves the truth of its incompleteness, its refusal of useful meaning.\nEMILY LABARGE is a Canadian writer based in London. She has written essays and criticism for Granta, London Review of\nBooks, Bookforum, Frieze, The Paris Review, among other publications. LaBarge has written widely for artist books and\nmonographs. Dog Days is her first book.","brand":"Peninsula Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback Book","offer_id":50328258609430,"sku":"RMX-51045","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/42ac39b02289671a6f9264c03add0eb2_92699072-eeab-4c81-a7e9-5468d5c0b7f3.jpg?v=1753954337","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/labarge-emily-dog-days","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}