{"product_id":"9781068204784","title":"From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate : (Vol. 1-5) Box Set","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Mackey, Nathaniel\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 13 November 2026 by The 87 Press in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMultiple-component retail product, slip-cased | \u003cbr\u003e198 x 129\u003cp\u003e'For fourty years this writing has kept me company. All I do is try to accompany it, in turn. You, too, will be left irreparably and rapturously unalone.' —Fred MotenFrom a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate explores music, philosophy, myth, erotics, and sociality in a rich and innovative patchwork of dreams, discourse, and everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMackey’s epic quintet is an epistolary novel that unfolds through N.’s intimate letters to the mysterious Angel of Dust. Unexpected events and profound happenings occur as N. delves into the goings-on of his transmorphic Los Angeles-based jazz ensemble, in which he is a composer and multi-instrumentalist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story opens in July 1978 with a dream of a haunting Archie Shepp solo and a disassembled bass clarinet, and closes in June 1984 with a disconcertingly positive review of the ensemble’s first album Orphic Bend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike anything written today, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate collects the full five installments—Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus’s Run, Atet A.D., Bass Cathedral, and Late Arcade—of Nathaniel Mackey’s genre-defying work of serial fiction, which layers realism and myth through jazz-infused prose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mackey, Nathaniel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54261468332216,"sku":"9781068204784","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781068204784.jpg?v=1791383187","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781068204784","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}