{"product_id":"eros-queer-myths-for-lovers","title":"Eros : Queer Myths for Lovers","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e“A stunning debut.” — \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e“A feast of gender-bending pleasures.” — \u003cem\u003eThe Big Issue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e“Transness is not an abnormality of nature but a necessity of it. You’ll find that refrain woven into \u003cem\u003eEros\u003c\/em\u003e’s tapestry, stitched into the way characters dive into the ocean, like they are returning to it.” — \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe keeps her eyes on me while she lights the end of my cigarette. I stare back at her. Something in the pills and in her eyes is opening up my muscles like hands parting from prayer, like trees breathing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEros\u003c\/em\u003e is a stunning collection of short stories, grounded in truth and coloured with dazzling imagination and alluring, unpredictable mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRevealing how queerness, nature and myth have been intertwined for eternity, these are stories of gods and goddesses. Of Zeus, of Eurydice, of Hermaphroditus, of Icarus before he flew into the sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eStories of queer life, lust, revenge, wrath, passion and sex. Of yearning, love, loss. Some transformations span across a life, and others, an evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePerspectives will shift. Houses will burn. Lovers will learn their fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eZoe Terakes has skilfully blended myth and modernity to illuminate the complex and enduring truth of trans lives, resisting a history of erasure and delivering a sexy, soul-touching book to read to your lover… or yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Octopus Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55453461709137,"sku":"9781846017643","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1089\/4478\/5745\/files\/9781846017643.jpg?v=1792856861","url":"https:\/\/www.proudlybookish.com\/products\/eros-queer-myths-for-lovers","provider":"Proudly Bookish","version":"1.0","type":"link"}