{"product_id":"discipline","title":"Discipline","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA taut, electrifying debut about a woman forced to confront unsettling truths about herself, her past, and the life she rebuilt following a ruinous affair with her former mentor, from a “world phenom” (\u003ci\u003eHarpers Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI have the sense that something is being drawn between us. Not drawn as in line but as in arrow pulled back. Yet I dont know which of us holds the bow, and which of us faces the arrow.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChristine is on tour for her novel, a revenge fantasy based on a real-life relationship gone bad with an older professor ten years prior. Now on the road, she's seeking answers—about how to live a good life and what it means to make art—through intimate conversations with strangers, past lovers, and friends.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut when the antagonist of her novel—her old painting professor—reaches out in a series of sly communiques after years of silence to tell her he's read her book, Christine must reckon with what it means to lose the reins of a narrative she wrote precisely to maintain control. When her professor invites her to join him at his house, on a remote island off the coast of Maine, their encounter threatens to change the very foundations of her life as she's imagined it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA pristine and provocative high-wire act toggling the fictions we construct for ourselves just to survive and the possibilities that lie beyond them, Discipline launches a spellbinding inquiry into the nature of art-making and rigor, intimacy and attention, punishment and release.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLarissa Pham \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the essay collection \u003ci\u003ePop Song\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard prize. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta, The Nation, New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Aperture, \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. She holds an MFA in fiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She teaches at the New School’s MFA in creative writing. \u003ci\u003eDiscipline \u003c\/i\u003eis her first novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52489720529185,"sku":"9780593979648","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/8521\/9617\/files\/discipline.jpg?v=1774471532","url":"https:\/\/www.onwaverly.com\/products\/discipline","provider":"On Waverly","version":"1.0","type":"link"}