{"product_id":"aliens-anorexia","title":"Aliens \u0026 Anorexia","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's 1996, and Chris Kraus is in Berlin, seeking a distributor for her film \u003ci\u003eGravity and Grace\u003c\/i\u003e, described alternately as 'an experimental 16mm film about hope, despair, religious feeling and conviction' and 'an  amateur intellectual's home video expanded to bulimic lengths' ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's 1942 in Marseille, and Simone Weil is waiting for the US entry visa that will save her from the Holocaust, while writing work described alternately as a 'radical philosophy of sadness' and 'immoral, trite, irrelevant and paradoxical' ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's the late 90s, the millennium is approaching, and Chris Kraus is in Los Angeles, not eating, waiting for her s\/m partner to reply to her emails ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's 1943, and Simone Weil is in London, completing her project of transcendence by dying of starvation ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilled with Chris Kraus' trademark wit and frankness, unfolding to reveal the lives of ecstatic visionaries and failed artists, \u003ci\u003eAliens and Anorexia\u003c\/i\u003e is an audacious novel about failure, empathy and sadness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44791280074931,"sku":"9781788160070","price":572.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17478132699781788160070.jpg?v=1762855441","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/aliens-anorexia","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}