{"product_id":"is-there-god-after-prince-by-peter-coviello-9780226828084","title":"Is There God after Prince?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEssays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people in an age of accelerating disaster.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about loving things—books, songs, people—in the shadow of a felt, looming disaster. Through lyrical, funny, heart-wrenching essays, Peter Coviello considers pieces of culture across a fantastic range, setting them inside the vivid scenes of friendship, dispute, romance, talk, and loss, where they enter our lives. Alongside him, we reencounter movies like \u003ci\u003eThe Shining\u003c\/i\u003e, shows like \u003ci\u003eThe Sopranos\u003c\/i\u003e; videos; poems; novels by Sam Lipsyte, Sally Rooney, and Paula Fox; as well as songs by Joni Mitchell, Gladys Knight, Steely Dan, Pavement, and the much-mourned saint of Minneapolis, Prince.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNavigating an overwhelming feeling that Coviello calls “endstrickenness,” he asks what it means to love things in calamitous times, when so much seems to be shambling toward collapse. Balancing comedy and anger, exhilaration and sorrow, Coviello illuminates the strange ways the things we cherish help us to hold on to life and to its turbulent joys. \u003ci\u003eIs There God after Prince?\u003c\/i\u003e shows us what twenty-first-century criticism can be, and how it might speak to us, in a time of ruin, in an age of “Last Things.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424408617196,"sku":"9780226828084","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226828084.jpg?v=1774768536","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/is-there-god-after-prince-by-peter-coviello-9780226828084","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}