{"product_id":"9781466880603","title":"Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn intense, refractory memoir by a major poet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMisgivings \u003c\/i\u003eis C. K. Williams's searing recollection of his family's extreme dynamics and of his parents' deaths after years of struggle, bitterness, and inner conflict. Like Kafka's self-revealing \u003ci\u003eLetter to His Father, Misgiving\u003c\/i\u003es is full of doubt, both philosophical and personal, but as a work of art it is sure and true.\u003cbr\u003eWilliams's father was an \"ordinary businessman\"--angry, demanding, addicted to the tension he created with the people he loved; a man who could read the Greek myths aloud to his son yet vowed never to apologize to anybody. His mother was a housewife, a woman with a great capacity for pleasure, who was stoical about the family's dire early poverty yet remained affected by it even when they became well-off. Together, these two formed what Williams calls the \"conspiracy that made me who I am.\" His account of their life together and their deaths--his father's with suicidal despair, and his mother's with calm resignation--is a literary form of the reconciliation the family achieved at the end of his parents' lives. And as literary form it is novel, a series of brilliant short takes, a double helix of experience and recollection. Few contemporary writers have understood their origins so acutely, or so eloquently.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177770270960,"sku":"9781466880603","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466880603_p0.jpg?v=1769892030","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466880603","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}