{"product_id":"9781590175590","title":"Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby","description":"\u003ci\u003eIncludes an afterword by the author\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the  twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce  among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost  generation. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of  the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation: these were  Crosby’s pastimes until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent  bride of another man, and then himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBlack Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is novelist and master biographer Geoffrey  Wolff’s subtle and striking picture of a man who killed himself to make  his life a work of art.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138078458096,"sku":"9781590175590","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590175590_p0.jpg?v=1763809983","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590175590","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}