{"product_id":"9780872864184","title":"The End of Youth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe End of Youth \u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of 13 linked stories, essays and rants, about carrying on after youth's hope is gone. In \"Afraid of the Dark,\" a child learns that there is good reason to be afraid. The adolescent narrator of \"Description of a Struggle\" finds that love can be brutal. \"The Smokers\" -examines an adult's realization that longevity means seeing loved ones die. Written with the same spare and vivid beauty as her earlier award-winning works, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Youth \u003c\/i\u003e is certain to win even wider acclaim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Throughout her writing career, Brown has exhibited a rare sensitivity in delving into difficult, uncomfortable material - death, disease, imperfect bodies and minds... in this slim book... there's also humor and sensuality so intense it's visionary...\" — \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A strange and wonderful first-person voice emerges from the stories of Rebecca Brown, who strips her language of convention to lay bare the ferocious rituals of love and need.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rarer than the newness, the wit, the vivid readability, is the deep caring understanding, the wholeness, the truth with which this astonishing, haunting writer creates her people.\" —Tillie Olsen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In The End of Youth, her new collection of stories and essays, Brown turns [a] gentle yet relentless gaze onto herself — or rather, onto scenes remembered from her childhood. The result is effortlessly perverse and frequently hilarious.\" — \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRebecca Brown \u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Terrible Girls, Annie Oakley's Girl, The Gifts of the Body \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e . She lives in Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015958216944,"sku":"9780872864184","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780872864184_p0.jpg?v=1763845649","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780872864184","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}