{"product_id":"life-and-art-essays-hardcover","title":"Life and Art: Essays - Hardcover","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\u003eRichard Russo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eSomebody's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Destiny Thief\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife and Art\u003c\/i\u003e--these are the twin subjects considered in Richard Russo's twelve masterful new essays--how they inform each other and how the stories we tell ourselves about both shape our understanding of the world around us. In \"The Lives of Others,\" he reflects on the implacable fact that writers use people, insisting that what matters, in the end, is how and for what purpose. How do you bridge the gap between what you know and what you don't, and sometimes can't, know? Why tell a story in the first place? What we don't understand, Russo opines, is in fact the very thing that beckons to us. In \"Stiff Neck,\" he writes of the exasperating fault lines exposed within his own family as his wife's sister and her husband--proudly unvaccinated--develop COVID. In \"Triage,\" he details with heartbreaking vividness the terror of seeing his seven-year-old grandson in critical condition. And in \"Ghosts,\" he revisits Gloversville, the town that gave rise to the now-legendary fictional town of North Bath, and confronts the specter of its richly populated past and its ghostly present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSharp, tender, extraordinarily intimate reflections on work, culture, love, and family from one of the great writers of our time.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRICHARD RUSSO is the author of nine novels, most recently \u003ci\u003eSomebody's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChances Are . . ., Everybody's Fool, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThat Old Cape Magic;\u003c\/i\u003e two collections of stories; and the memoir \u003ci\u003eElsewhere.\u003c\/i\u003e In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eEmpire Falls, \u003c\/i\u003e which, like \u003ci\u003eNobody's Fool, \u003c\/i\u003e won multiple awards for its screen adaptation, and in 2023 his novel \u003ci\u003eStraight Man\u003c\/i\u003e was adapted into the television series \u003ci\u003eLucky Hank. \u003c\/i\u003eIn 2017 he received France's Grand Prix de Litt?rature Am?ricaine. He lives in Port­land, ME.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984025977133,"sku":"9780593802168","price":27.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/bVNXlQXHB69780593802168.webp?v=1776081465","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/life-and-art-essays-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}