{"product_id":"a-common-life-four-generations-of-american-literary-friendships-and-influence-paperback","title":"A Common Life: Four Generations of American Literary Friendships and Influence - 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\u003eDavid Laskin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Laskin shares the stories of four friendships that have defined the course of American Literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty, and Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn illuminating study of the nature of friendship itself, \u003ci\u003eA Common Life \u003c\/i\u003eis a fascinating narrative of the entanglements of art and life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn each of the friendships that Laskin portrays, he demonstrates how the two writers met at a critical turning point in their lives and careers and how they profoundly affected the course of both. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A delightful, unusual and often illuminating study of a kind of influences wrought on eight famous American writers by their intimate friendships with each other.\" -- Louis Auchincloss​\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Laskin was born in New York and studied at Harvard College and New College, Oxford. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Children's Blizzard\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Washington State Book Award and the Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award for Nonfiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.19 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 21, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47551747621117,"sku":"9781416576068","price":41.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/UzVIYjhDT1pqb0I0MnpGVENDZlBLdz09.webp?v=1779227515","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/a-common-life-four-generations-of-american-literary-friendships-and-influence-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}