{"product_id":"9780156827478","title":"Sketchbook 1966-1971","description":"A work of exceptional range, by the noted author of \"I'm Not Stiller,\" this \"sketchbook\" combines a fascinating variety of material, part fictional, part autobiographical, part Socratic. It constitutes a new art form, immensely stimulating through its shifts of prism, including: \u003cp\u003eA series of startling questions that probe attitudes toward marriage, women, friendship, property, death, and so on (Are you afraid of the poor? Why not?) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterrogations about the use of violence for political ends \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReports on a society for self-determined euthanasia \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA number of short stories \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImpressions of trips abroad, two to Russia, two to America (the last of which describes lunch at the White House with Henry Kissinger) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecollections of meetings with Bertolt Brecht as well as a series of candid portraits of Gunter Grass, before and after fame. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrisch, a Swiss, considers contemporary society with the mind of a highly intelligent, observant, and troubled liberal, sharply, wryly, reflectively. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailed as a masterpiece by German critics, the book became an instant and long-lived best-seller in the original edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010801942768,"sku":"9780156827478","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780156827478_p0.jpg?v=1763658284","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780156827478","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}