{"product_id":"lost-words-paperback","title":"Lost Words - Paperback","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\u003eXavier Hennekinne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePhil Day\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLost Words\u003c\/em\u003e is an elegant and deeply personal collection of prose pieces by Xavier Hennekinne, a French-born, Australian-based writer, accompanied by original prints and drawings by artist Phil Day. Published by Gazebo Books in 2019, the book takes its epigraph from Gaston Bachelard - \"Only through reverie can unusual images be communicated\" - and holds true to that spirit throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pieces range freely across film, literature, memory, and language: a chance encounter with Romy Schneider's daughter in a Paris theatre; reflections on Mishima's suicide at forty-five; the fear that videogames are colonising a child's imagination; memories of a French Catholic school and the lies told to a dismayed teacher; the faces of Spanish actresses hidden under a mattress. Running through everything is the narrator's lifelong obsession with cinema - particularly European art-house film - and the way images from the screen fuse inseparably with intimate memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterwoven with Phil Day's striking lithographs and drypoint engravings, \u003cem\u003eLost Words\u003c\/em\u003e is a book as much to look at as to read. Steeped in European literary and cinematic culture yet rooted in an Australian present, it is a meditation on expatriate identity, the mysteries of resemblance, the failures and unexpected gifts of language, and the interior life of a reader and writer for whom reverie is both vocation and refuge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 126\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379067142283,"sku":"9781764520362","price":34.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/EOxSXJ2C8U9781764520362.webp?v=1781873290","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/lost-words-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}