{"product_id":"insel-by-mina-loy","title":"Insel by Mina Loy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“He has an evening suit, but never an occasion to wear it, so he puts it on when he paints his pictures.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eInsel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the only novel by the surrealist master Mina Loy, is a book like no other—about an impossible friendship amid the glamorous artistic bohemia of 1930s Paris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGerman painter Insel is a perpetual sponger and outsider—prone to writing elegant notes with messages like “Am starving to death except for a miracle—three o’clock Tuesday afternoon will be the end”—but somehow writer and art dealer Mrs. Jones likes him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether, they sit in cafés, hatch grand plans, and share their artistic aspirations and disappointments. And they become friends. But as they grow ever closer, Mrs. Jones begins to realize just how powerful Insel’s hold over her is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnpublished during Loy’s lifetime, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eInsel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—which is loosely based on her friendship with the painter Richard Oelze—is a supremely surrealist, deliberately excessive creation: baroque in style, yet full of deft comedy and sympathy. Now, with an alternate ending only recently unearthed in the Loy archives, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eInsel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is finally back in print, and Loy’s extraordinary achievement can be appreciated by a new generation of readers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormer library trade paperback in good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mt Lebanon Book Cellar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44176779444404,"sku":"F - PB - MTL - SPB","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0504\/7097\/7716\/files\/81RvFSRYcFL._SY522.jpg?v=1775674483","url":"https:\/\/mt-lebanon-book-cellar.myshopify.com\/products\/insel-by-mina-loy","provider":"Mt Lebanon Book Cellar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}