{"product_id":"9780374714536","title":"A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in the Trash","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexander Masters, the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eStuart: A Life Backwards\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003easks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap heap\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2001, 148 tattered and mold-covered notebooks were discovered lying among broken bricks in a skip on a building site in Cambridge. Tens of thousands of pages were filled to the edges with urgent handwriting. They were a small part of an intimate, anonymous diary, starting in 1952 and ending half a century later, a few weeks before the books were thrown out. Over five years, the award-winning biographer Alexander Masters uncovers the identity and real history of their author, with an astounding final revelation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Life Discarded \u003c\/i\u003eis a true, shocking, poignant, often hilarious story of an ordinary life. The author of the diaries, known only as 'I,' is the tragicomic patron saint of everyone who feels their life should have been more successful. Part thriller, part love story, part social history, \u003ci\u003eA Life Discarded\u003c\/i\u003e is a biographical detective story that unfolds with the suspense of a mystery but has all the warmth, respect, humor, and dazzling originality that made Masters's \u003ci\u003eStuart: A Life Backwards \u003c\/i\u003esuch a beloved book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121320870128,"sku":"9780374714536","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374714536_p0.jpg?v=1769917274","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374714536","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}