{"product_id":"watts-madeleine-elegy-southwest","title":"Watts, Madeleine - Elegy, Southwest","description":"The critically acclaimed author of The Inland Sea returns\nwith an emotionally eviscerating love story set\nagainst the stark and prickly beauty of the American\nsouthwest\n'This book is a fever dream, a mood, a spell, an entire climate filled with\na particular kind of desert winter light - harsh, unsparing, and beautiful'\nLeslie Jamison, author of Splinters\n'Astonishingly and chillingly prescient . . . a rare kind of writing where\nevery page offers something to linger on' FT\nEloise has known only two great loves: her husband, Lewis, and the desert.\nAn academic living in Brooklyn, she is mesmerized by tales of the American\nSouthwest, that paradise built on quicksand with less water every passing\nyear. When the couple set out on a road trip tracing the course of the Colorado\nRiver, Eloise researches its lakes and dams, while Lewis grieves his mother in\nthe prickly wasteland where he never felt quite at home.\nTogether they cruise past gaping canyons, glittering casinos and motels gone\nto seed, travelling through the red-gold light of nearby wildfires. They are\nyoung and they have each other, and for a moment the whole world seems to\nshimmer with glorious possibility. But within the close confines of the car a\nchasm starts to open between them.\nThis is a hauntingly beautiful love story about the mystery of other people - at\nonce an excavation of a relationship, and an elegy for a desert running dry.","brand":"ONE","offers":[{"title":"Paperback Book","offer_id":50907756724502,"sku":"RMX-60015","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/5bc199a88aa1f8307e6fb9bb3d067a0d.jpg?v=1767708681","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/watts-madeleine-elegy-southwest","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}