{"product_id":"writers","title":"Writers","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWriters\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eBarry Gifford\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781609806491\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSeven Stories Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2015\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWriters\u003c\/i\u003e, great American storyteller Barry Gifford paints portraits of famous writers caught in imaginary vulnerable moments in their lives. In prose that is funny, grotesque, and a touch brutal, Gifford shows these writers at their most human, which is to say at their worst: they are liars, frauds, lousy lovers, and drunks. This is a world in which Ernest Hemingway drunkenly sets explosive trip wires outside his home in Cuba, Marcel Proust implores the angel of death as a delirious Arthur Rimbaud lies dying in a hospital bed, and Albert Camus converses with a young prostitute while staring at himself in the mirror of a New York City hotel room. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Gifford's house of mirrors, we are offered a unique perspective on this group of literary greats. We see their obsessions loom large, and none more than a shared needling preoccupation with mortality. And yet these stories, which are meant to be performed as plays, are also tender and thoughtful exercises in empathy. Gifford asks: What does it means to devote oneself entirely to art? And as an artist, what defines success and failure?\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Writers | Barry Gifford | Hardcover | 9781609806491 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1658779","offer_id":50783931138306,"sku":"1658779","price":21.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/91pR2Ca4imL.jpg?v=1792224605","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/writers","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}