{"product_id":"9781458204707","title":"Images","description":"\u003cp\u003eClaire Helen Siegal believed that the greatest evil in life was not to fulfill one’s potential. Through the written word, a sensitive, intelligent, and acerbic voice emerges. In this autobiography—published posthumously by her executrix, Elaine Levitt—Claire’s poetry, essays, and narrative text paint a portrait of its creator. Before she died, Claire began her quest for self-understanding through her writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom her writings, a flesh-and-blood woman emerges. She blends her variegated images to produce a self-portrait that paints her as she was in life: a vulnerable, willful, innocent, cynical, and always unforgettable woman. An idealist, Claire yearned for the ideal, but faced reality’s hard, metallic edge with determination. Hers was a biting-edge, sardonic wisdom, learned at the expense of innocence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaire gave herself the moral mandate to put together this unconventional autobiography forcing you to see her importance, so her soul could have peace. She didn’t want sympathy or compassion; she wanted affirmation of the life she lived, as if this could make it meaningful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer life was a study in contrast; innocent and cynical by turns. Her persona is recognizable in all her writings. She was alone. G-d was not in her life. She was Jewish and proud of it, but she removed G-d from the equation on the basis of what the Holocaust did to her family. She questioned everything, letting nothing escape her notice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will not soon forget her, or the images her life evokes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abbott Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49850264420592,"sku":"9781458204707","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781458204707","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}