{"product_id":"9780595432356","title":"Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003eA well-known and celebrated man of American letters, Anton Lotus has spent the last few decades living anonymously in a small, semi-rural Pennsylvania town. After years of rather unabashed, libertine behavior, he finds himself faced with the curious and perhaps ironic circumstance of testing HIV positive at the age of eighty-three.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLotus's physician refers him to a female counselor. Unaware of his true identity, she recommends that he engage in \"scriptotherapy\" as part of his treatment. Rather than write about this illness, Lotus-stubbornly unsentimental-instead uses the activity to write about the great pleasures and passions of his full life: a hymn of desire, which he claims has been his guiding impulse and motivation, and the pursuit of which he deems his true vocation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLotus constructs his memoir using four different narrative techniques-a parody of his modernist roots-and creates multiple layers of autobiography that are often associative as well as chronological, following the habits of his memory. Above all, Desire is a comic novel that ostensibly focuses on sexual desire but ultimately celebrates art, love, and the complex but singular experience of living.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48466404802801,"sku":"9780595432356","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780595432356_p0.jpg?v=1785643093","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780595432356","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}