{"product_id":"9780983488422","title":"The Sagebrush Bohemian Mark Twain's Wild Years","description":"Most people, including literary biographers and other people who should know better, have a persistent image of Mark Twain as a dyspeptic geezer in a white suit, sourly regarding the world from a rocking chair on his New England porch. Not surprisingly, when Nigey Lennon's groundbreaking biography, \"The Sagebrush Bohemian\", originally presented its startlingly irreverent revelations about Twain's formative years, it aroused a firestorm of controversy. Previous Twain biographers had virtually ignored the pivotal period (1861-1869) during which Samuel Clemens migrated to the Western territory; learned the craft of writing in newspaper offices, saloons, and worse places; visited the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands; became a public speaker; adopted (or misappropriated) his famous monicker; and acquired his trademark moustache. Beneath its breezy, eminently readable surface, \"The Sagebrush Bohemian\" digests acres of primary sources to provide a penetrating, ribald, and hilarious look at the origins of Mark Twain, not to mention the Zeitgeist of the lusty and lawless era that produced him.   \"[The Sagebrush Bohemian] offers an efficient and lighthearted introduction to the years in which Sam Clemens transformed himself into the writer who made the American language and American irreverence the stuff of literature.\"  -- The New York Times Book Review  \"With great good humor, Lennon recounts Twain's acquisition of a craft lost in his counterparts today...a different look at Samuel Clemens.\" -- Booklist  \"A delight to read.\"  -- San Francisco Review of Books","brand":"SCB Distributors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132737601776,"sku":"9780983488422","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780983488422_p0.jpg?v=1763886252","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983488422","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}