{"product_id":"9781804272107","title":"Bricks and Mortar [MAY.29]","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEXPECTED RELEASE MAY 29th, 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(184, 13, 46);\"\u003eTHIS IS A PRE-ORDER ITEM; RELEASE DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE\/DELAYS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBricks and Mortar\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of the industry from absolute prohibition to full legality in the twenty years following the reunification of Germany. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe focus is on the rise and fall of one man from football hooligan to large-scale landlord and service-provider for prostitutes to, ultimately, a man persecuted by those he once trusted. But we also hear other voices: many different women who work in prostitution, their clients, small-time gangsters, an ex-jockey searching for his drug-addict daughter, a businessman from the West, a girl forced into child prostitution, a detective, a pirate radio presenter…\u003cbr\u003eIn this ambitious novel, Clemens Meyer pays homage to modernist, East German and contemporary writers like Alfred Döblin, Wolfgang Hilbig and David Peace but uses his own style and almost hallucinatory techniques. Time shifts and stretches, people die and come to life again, and Meyer takes his characters seriously and challenges his readers in this dizzying eye-opening novel that also finds inspiration in the films of Russ Meyer, Takashi Miike, Gaspar Noé and David Lynch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback | 640 pages | 4.49\" x 7.7\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clemens Meyer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48546498183400,"sku":"9781804272107x","price":26.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0e5a7ee7-20f5-44f1-96d8-9b8e11d77ba4.jpg?v=1778609522","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.ca\/products\/9781804272107","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}