{"product_id":"9780486836096","title":"Dark Reflections","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Samuel R. Delany is not only one of the most profound and courageous writers at work today, he is a writer of seemingly limitless range.\" — Michael Cunningham, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hours\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\"Among the most detailed, thoughtful, and heartbreaking portrayals of a writer's life.\" —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThis Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of Arnold Hawley, a homosexual African-American poet. Albert's poetry ultimately meets with modest acclaim but only after decades of striving. Romance and friendship are likewise elusive, despite an impulsive marriage to a stranger. His outsider status—black, gay, and a poet—compounds his struggles to create art, to find a readership, and to lead a meaningful existence.\u003cbr\u003eBeautifully written in reverse chronological order, the story opens with Albert's lonely old age and ventures back in time to his arrival in New York City of the 1950s. A meditation on isolation and sexual repression, \u003ci\u003eDark Reflections\u003c\/i\u003e also offers an acerbic look at the literary world and the frustrations intrinsic to artistic life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49990976209136,"sku":"9780486836096","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780486836096","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}