{"product_id":"life-of-m","title":"Life of M","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the critically-acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, an irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty and truth -- and a blazing renovation of the form\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. She's a good sport. Would you just make it up? she said.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eM is a film star, and one of the most recognisable faces of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged. For her, it seems, the rules of reality have melted away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow M has agreed to let a stranger write her biography. Their project will sprawl and expand: to the olive groves and holiday beaches where M spends her days; across hotel rooms, bourgeois facades, film sets; through endless modern cities. It is hard not to feel ugly next to M, hard not to feel insignificant. But what truths - about the very experience of living - might this proximity allow the writer to briefly capture? And what in the end will M make of their work?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Life of M, Rachel Cusk has again fashioned a new kind of literature. A novel stripped of artifice, it takes our emptiness and fills it with grace.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51299606626527,"sku":"9780571399802","price":60.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9780571399802.jpg?v=1788143624","url":"https:\/\/blackbirdfloral.info\/products\/life-of-m","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}