{"product_id":"2940149196715","title":"The Roots That Clutch (1)","description":"\"The Roots That Clutch\" tells the haunting true-story about how a\u003cbr\u003eyoung woman discovered through her PhD research on T.S. Eliot\u003cbr\u003eand Ezra Pound that her grandmother had had an affair with the\u003cbr\u003eother great American Modernist, William Carlos Williams. She also\u003cbr\u003ediscovers that her father may be the biological child of Williams.\u003cbr\u003eThe story is told through the experiences of the author’s persona\u003cbr\u003eJane. Written as a Bildungsroman, the novel takes place at\u003cbr\u003euniversities and manuscript libraries in Europe and the United\u003cbr\u003eStates over the span of 21 years. The unmistakable themes of\u003cbr\u003ebetrayal, destiny and poetic justice are woven into the tapestry of\u003cbr\u003ethe novel. Though as a student she is constantly the victim of\u003cbr\u003eacademic politics and betrayals between professors, Jane is\u003cbr\u003esupported by a few well-connected scholars who believe her innate\u003cbr\u003einsight into poetry could offer vastly new perspectives in the field.\u003cbr\u003eDespite the never-ending struggle to continue, Jane is pushed along\u003cbr\u003eby an unquenchable hunch that she must not give up. As Jane\u003cbr\u003eslowly unravels the poetic connections between Eliot, Pound and\u003cbr\u003etheir immediate late-nineteenth century British predecessors,\u003cbr\u003eshe stumbles upon Eliot’s unpublished letters to Pound. Jane soon\u003cbr\u003ediscovers that betrayal is not only an academic’s trade secret, but\u003cbr\u003ealso a poet’s. Then, her father decides she should have a family\u003cbr\u003eheirloom that was her grandmother’s. It contains an inscription\u003cbr\u003efrom Williams in it, who like Jane, had always distrusted T.S. Eliot.","brand":"Beth Sweens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075512975600,"sku":"2940149196715","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149196715_p0.jpg?v=1763713725","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149196715","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}