{"product_id":"9780679740025","title":"The Father","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Father\u003c\/i\u003e is a sequence of poems, a daughter’s vision of a father’s illness and death. It chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The book is, most of all, a series of acts of understanding. The poems are impelled by a passion to know, and a freedom to follow wherever the truth may lead. The book goes into area of feeling and experience rarely entered in poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ebullient language, the startling, far-reaching images, the sense of extraordinary connectedness seize us immediately. Sharon Olds transforms a harsh reality with truthfulness, with beauty, with humor—and without bitterness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe deep pain in \u003ci\u003eThe Father\u003c\/i\u003e arises from a death, and from understanding a life. But there is joy as well. In the end, we discover we have been reading not a grim accounting but an inspiriting tragedy, transcending the personal. The radiance and daring that have always distinguished Sharon Old’s work find here their most powerful expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027381567728,"sku":"9780679740025","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679740025_p0.jpg?v=1763613812","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679740025","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}