{"product_id":"stranger-beauty-hardcover","title":"Stranger Beauty - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Gasda\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet in a future that grows more plausible by the day, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eStranger Beauty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e asks what traces will remain after a life has ended.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are novels that describe consciousness and novels that enact it. \u003ci\u003eStranger Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e is of the latter. With its narrative spun out of three notebooks, an embedded screenplay, and a final monologue delivered by an AI that has legally consumed a dead man's life's work, Matthew Gasda's formally daring prose carries a powerful emotional resonance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe architecture of the novel is not a stunt. Each section burrows, dreamlike, into a single psyche through repetition, contradiction, and the slow surfacing of things that were never meant to be seen. A marriage as alchemy. A brother lost to madness who emerges as the moral center of everything. And an artificial rendering of a man that speaks with more honesty than the living ever managed to accomplish. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn ambitious and original novel, \u003ci\u003eStranger Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e is also deeply heartbreaking.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Gasda\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A dramatist, novelist, and poet, he is the author of fifteen plays and counting, including the acclaimed underground hit \u003ci\u003eDimes Square\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 8.36 x 5.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54090045194547,"sku":"9781648211744","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/5wVxGT_Ezv9781648211744.webp?v=1789599323","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/stranger-beauty-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}