{"product_id":"who-is-mary-sue-pb","title":"Sue Collins: WHO IS MARY SUE [2018] paperback","description":"WINNER OF THE MICHAEL MURPHY MEMORIAL PRIZE\u003cbr\u003ePOETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the language of fan fiction, a 'Mary Sue' is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuch is the setting for this brilliant and important debut by Sophie Collins. In a series of verse and prose collages, Who Is Mary Sue? exposes the presumptive politics behind writing and readership: the idea that men invent while women reflect; that a man writes of the world outside while a woman will turn to the interior.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart poetry and part reportage, at once playful and sincere, these fictive-factive miniatures deploy original writing and extant quotation in a mode of pure invention. In so doing, they lift up and lay down a revealing sequence of masks and mirrors that disturb the reflection of authority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA work of captivation and correction, this is a book that will resonate with anyone concerned with identity, shame, gender, trauma, composition and culture: everyone, in other words, who wishes to live openly and think fearlessly in the modern world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho Is Mary Sue? is a work for our times and a question for our age: it is a handbook for all those willing to reimagine prescriptive notions of identity and selfhood.","brand":"Collins, Sue","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44318518313250,"sku":"9780571346615","price":13.75,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47935468110163,"sku":"XV80571346615","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/collins-sue-sue-collins-who-is-mary-sue-2018-paperback-55266242527571.jpg?v=1728320886","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/who-is-mary-sue-pb","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}