{"product_id":"9780870239427","title":"The Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the foreword by Geneva Overholser.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is it about really fine writers, how they delight, intrigue, compel us?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStyle, you say. But style is not something you begin with. Rather, it's what you end up with, a result of far more fundamental traits. Traits such as an ear and an eye and a heart, traits that Madeliene Blais has honed superbly well. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book well named: The Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism. The heart is surely first among Blais's gifts. Whether she is writing about the famous--playwright tennessee Williams, novelist Mary Gordon--or about the least elevated among us--a teenage prostitute infected with the AIDS virus, a homeless schizophrenic--she brings to her subjects an incomparable empathy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018244505840,"sku":"9780870239427","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780870239427_p0.jpg?v=1763839906","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780870239427","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}