{"product_id":"2940169124989","title":"All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives amp;mdash; and see clearly the people we love most.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf¿s modernist masterpiece \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e in the comfort of an English sitting room and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death amp;mdash; a calamity that claimed her favorite person amp;mdash; she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmyth¿s story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf¿s Cornish shores and Bloomsbury squares, exploring universal questions about family, loss, and homecoming. Through her inventive, highly personal reading of \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e, and her artful adaptation of its groundbreaking structure, Smyth guides us toward a new vision of Woolf¿s most demanding and rewarding novel amp;mdash; and crafts an elegant reminder of literature¿s ability to clarify and console.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBraiding memoir, literary criticism, and biography, \u003ci\u003eAll the Lives We Ever Lived\u003c\/i\u003e is a wholly original debut: a love letter from a daughter to her father and from a reader to her most cherished author.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097751961840,"sku":"2940169124989","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169124989_p0.jpg?v=1763761514","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169124989","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}