{"product_id":"9780802199874","title":"Camus, a Romance","description":"\u003cb\u003eA woman’s passion for the Nobel Prize winner yields “a rich hybrid of biography, literary criticism, intellectual history and memoir” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Hawes was a college sophomore in the 1950s when she became transfixed and transformed by Albert Camus. The author of such revered works as \u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Plague\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e, he was best known for his contribution to twentieth-century literature. But who was he, beneath the trappings of fame? \u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e French-Algerian of humble birth; the TB-stricken exile editing the war resistance newspaper \u003ci\u003eComba\u003c\/i\u003et; the \u003ci\u003epied noir \u003c\/i\u003ein anguish over the Algerian War; and the Don Juan who loved a multitude of women. Above all, he was a man who was making an indelible mark on the psyche of an increasingly grounded and empowered nineteen-year-old girl in Massachusetts. Confident that one day she would meet her idol, Elizabeth never let go of his basic message: that in a world that was absurd, the only course was awareness and action.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In this “beautiful memoir of a life-long obsession” (\u003ci\u003eHarper’s Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e), literary critic Elizabeth Hawes chronicles her personal forty-year journey as she follows in Camus’s footsteps, “bring[ing] this troubled and complex writer back into the light” (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e). “A fascinating spin on the mere biographies others produce”, \u003ci\u003eCamus, a Romance \u003c\/i\u003eis the story not only of the elusive and solitary Camus, one wrought with passion and detail, but of the enduring and life-changing relationship between a reader and a most beloved writer (\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107316744432,"sku":"9780802199874","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802199874_p0.jpg?v=1769907156","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802199874","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}