{"product_id":"panics-paperback","title":"Panics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradictions of the twentieth-century female experience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA close friend and protégé of Marguerite Duras, Barbara Molinard (1921-1986) wrote and wrote feverishly, but only managed to publish one book in her lifetime: the surreal, nightmarish collection \u003cem\u003ePanics\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eThese thirteen stories beat with a frantic, off-kilter rhythm as Molinard obsesses over sickness, death, and control. A woman becomes transfixed by a boa constrictor at her local zoo, mysterious surgeons dismember their patient, and the author narrates to Duras how she was stopped from sleeping in a cemetery vault, only to be haunted by the pain of sleeping on its stone floor.\u003cbr\u003eIn the unsettling tradition of Franz Kafka, Djuna Barnes, Leonara Carrington, and more, \u003cem\u003ePanics\u003c\/em\u003e recovers the work of a tormented writer who often destroyed her writing as soon as she produced it, and whose insights into violence, mental illness, and bodily autonomy are simultaneously absurdist and razor-sharp. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374131118303,"sku":"9781558612952","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/sw0JRy7tM9781558612952.webp?v=1789171988","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/panics-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}