{"product_id":"9780811223584","title":"The Gift: Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe connections and interconnections of past and present––the realization that life is a whole continuously echoing back to the past and unfolding toward the future––were sources of the strength, renewal, and joy celebrated in H.D.'s Trilogy and, in a differing, but no less real way, in The Gift––her novelistic memoir of childhood. \u003c\/p\u003e In recapturing her memories of being a very little girl in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and later on a country place outside Philadelphia, H.D. \"let the story tell itself or the child tell it.\" It is this voice or child's-eye view that lends The Gift its special charm as H.D. recreates the ordinary and extraordinary occasions of her early youth, the nightmares and delights. A road-company presentation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Christmas Eve with its particular family ritual, a family outing, a disturbing accident––the happenings and incidents, perceptions and misconceptions with which a child's life is crowded are the substance of this most winning book. As she did for the H.D. novel HERmione, H.D.'s daughter, Perdita Schaffner, provides a fine introduction.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129183715568,"sku":"9780811223584","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811223584_p0.jpg?v=1769908259","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811223584","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}