{"product_id":"the-long-form-by-kate-briggs-9781804270325","title":"The Long Form","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHelen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest, they communicate; Rose feeds. Thoughts and associations travel far beyond the remit of the front room in their rented flat, which they pace, and which, alive with them, continually becomes new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheir delicate balance is interrupted by the delivery of \u003cem\u003eA History of Tom Jones\u003c\/em\u003e by Henry Fielding—a novel which describes itself, semi-seriously, as inventing the novel-form for the very first time. As the morning progresses, Helen starts reading it. Indirectly, and each in their own distinct ways, Helen and Rose start thinking about it: its claims to newness, its length, its essayistic digressions, its invitation to imagine old and new forms of life, writing, and experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Form\u003c\/em\u003e, Windham Campbell Prize-winner Kate Briggs' long-awaited debut fiction, unmakes and remakes the novel to meditate on very real social issues, from housing, to care-taking, to friendship, laying bare the settings and support structures that make durational forms of co-existence first thinkable, then possible. At once acrobatic and deeply attentive, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Form\u003c\/em\u003e insists on the creativity inherent in everyday life, showing how the acts of social composition (living arrangements) are continuous with the acts of artistic composition (page arrangements).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a brilliant novel of profound contrasts and productive co-dependencies, in which the small details of a day speak to the largest questions of form, responsibility, continuation, and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46717492723948,"sku":"9781804270325","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10717553482830.jpg?v=1754463782","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-long-form-by-kate-briggs-9781804270325","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}