{"product_id":"9781911717454","title":"Pathemata : Or, The Story of My Mouth","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Nelson, Maggie \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutobiography: literary\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 15 May 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Fern Press) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 80 pages\u003cbr\u003e204 x 137 x 13 | 172g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s not the dream that matters, it’s the telling of the dream – the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mindThis 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\u003eMerging dreams and dailies, Pathemata 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\u003eWith characteristic precision, humour and compassion, Nelson explores the limits of language to describe experience, while also offering a portrait of an unnerving and isolating time in our shared history. A stunning, original experiment in interiority by the adored author of Bluets and The Argonauts, Pathemata is a personal and poetic reckoning with pain and loss, both physical and emotional, as well as an uncanny meditation on love, affliction and resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55203939647863,"sku":"9781911717454","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781911717454.jpg?v=1747060814","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9781911717454","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}