{"product_id":"9781925818062-a-novel-idea","title":"A Novel Idea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Novel Idea \u003c\/i\u003eis a memoir in photoessay form that follows Fiona McGregor’s life as she\nwrites her award-winning novel\u003ci\u003e Indelible Ink\u003c\/i\u003e. It is a tongue-in-cheek\nrumination on the monotony and loneliness of the novelist’s daily life, and the\nact of endurance the writer must perform.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough an extended\nsequence of photographs taken on a hand-me-down camera, accompanied by terse,\nevocative captions, the book spans several years of labour and\nprocrastination, elation and despair. The details of the outside world\nintrude as McGregor works on the novel alone in her Bondi flat, with nothing\nbut a desk, a pin-board, a laptop and a cat, and in studio spaces in Berlin and Estonia. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMcGregor’s voice is\nwry, vulnerable, at times caustic, capturing the colloquial qualities of her\nfiction and the durational nature of her performance art via the ephemeral and\nessential thoughts that take up an author’s days, weeks, and years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eA Novel Idea \u003c\/i\u003eis a curiosity and a delight. Composed over years, Fiona McGregor’s intimate photo-essay charts writing a novel: that collision of exhilaration, tedium, despair and sheer slog. It will captivate writers and readers alike.' — Michelle de Kretser\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fiona McGregor casts out any pretence to literary mystique in a deadpan, ruthlessly honest, witty and at times surprisingly moving first person photographic narrative that draws us in, disarms us, leaves us vulnerable to the sudden poignancy of certain observations and revelations.' — Blair French\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Giramondo Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33783526228104,"sku":"9781925818062","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0371\/3443\/4440\/products\/a-novel-idea-9781925818062-670529.jpg?v=1690117586","url":"https:\/\/littlelostbookshop.com.au\/products\/9781925818062-a-novel-idea","provider":"The Little Lost Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}