{"product_id":"abandon-every-hope-essays-for-the-dead","title":"Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbandon Every Hope\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask: where does this horror begin and how can it end?\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCan anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats into infinity. Has a nasty sting of corpses. What was it Dante wrote?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbandon Every Hope\u003c\/i\u003e is a lament, an elegy, a deranged encyclopedia, and a diary of anxiety. How can anyone document the vastness of violence against animals in a bloated industrial age?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross a series of essays, Hayley Singer investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse to map the contours of a world cut to pieces by organised and profitable death. A compelling debut in poetic prose, Singer asks how we may write the life of the dead; the smell of an egg factory; of multispecies PTSD; of planetary harm and self-harm: of the horror we make on earth. Where does the slaughterhouse begin and how can it end?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Singer writes with a magnificent intensity, moving between different registers in order to bear witness to the pain and suffering of the slaughterhouse.\" Stephanie King, Readings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAbandon Every Hope\u003c\/i\u003e takes the form of a thanatography - an attempt to write death - which Hayley Singer describes as having a \"nearness to biography.\" Fiona Wright, \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A quietly ambitious book about suffering.\" Ben Brooker, \u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Singer's skill likes in controlling the level of discomfort in the essays to the point where you feel it as a reader but don't put the book down for a breath of fresh air or a long stare out the window, reflecting on your own part in all this.\" Jasper Linde, \u003ci\u003eThe Canberra Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Experimental and jostling in its use of poetic, lyric, academic and reflective writing styles, this book grapples with the industrial meat complex.\" -Stella Prize Judges comments","brand":"Hayley Singer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43515766865981,"sku":null,"price":28.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780645536997.jpg?v=1787488926","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/abandon-every-hope-essays-for-the-dead","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}