{"product_id":"bastards-by-nate-lippens","title":"Bastards by Nate Lippens","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Pilot Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYear: 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Softcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eNate Lippens\u003c\/em\u003e, author of the acclaimed novels \u003cem\u003eMy Dead Book, \u003c\/em\u003ea finalist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize and \u003cem\u003eRipcord\u003c\/em\u003e, a New Statesman Book of the Year, completes his Wisconsin trilogy with \u003cem\u003eBastards\u003c\/em\u003e, a book of losses, memories, and survival.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRecently sprung from a stint on a psychiatric ward, the narrator of Bastards works hard to perform at being a person while questioning the concept of identity and what it means to be an aging working-class gay man when the word queer has become so elastic and gentrified it’s used to conservative ends. Struggling to survive, pay rent, and navigate a hostile world, he takes solace in art and his friends and measures what makes a life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorrowing from the tropes of fragmented lyric essays, New Narrative, autofiction, and transgressive literature, Lippens is a bricoleur who creates a confected new form in his short novels. Queer pessimism in the age of affirmation. A search for something honest. An old queen’s cackle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Donlon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58960656335222,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0221\/7340\/files\/Screenshot2026-10-11at15.52.35.png?v=1791730384","url":"https:\/\/donlonbooks.com\/products\/bastards-by-nate-lippens","provider":"Donlon Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}