{"product_id":"2940170447183","title":"Silk Parachute","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe brief, brilliant essay \"Silk Parachute,\" which first appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e over a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces hereamp;mdash;highly varied in length and themeamp;mdash;McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long-exposure view-camera photography, the weird foods he has sometimes been served in the course of his reportorial travels, a U.S. Open golf championship, and a season in Europe \"on the chalk\" from the downs and sea cliffs of England to the Maas valley in the Netherlands and the champagne country of northern France. Some of the pieces are wholly personal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn luminous recollections of his early years, for example, he goes on outings with his mother, deliberately overturns canoes in a learning process at a summer camp, and germinates a future book while riding on a jump seat to away games as a basketball player. But each pieceamp;mdash;on whatever themeamp;mdash;contains somewhere a personal aspect in which McPhee suggests why he was attracted to write about the subject, and each opens like a silk parachute, lofted skyward and suddenly blossoming with color and form. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and led to his long association with \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. The same year he published his first book, \u003ci\u003eA Sense of Where You Are\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47099953381616,"sku":"2940170447183","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170447183_p0.jpg?v=1763709993","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170447183","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}