{"product_id":"9781608191185","title":"On Moving: A Writer's Meditation on New Houses, Old Haunts, and Finding Home Again","description":"When acclaimed memoirist and scholar Louise DeSalvo sold the house she and her husband had raised their children in and moved to a beautiful new home in Montclair, New Jersey, she was shocked to discover a rash of unexpected emotions interfering with her plans. Suddenly the old, cramped house was paradise, and the new house a barren building with none of the comforts or familiarity of \"home.\" Faced with a sudden disillusionment over her dream house, DeSalvo turned, as she always has, to her favorite writers.\u003cbr\u003eWhat she found was a treasure-trove of material, most of which has seldom been written about before, chronicling the tumultuous and inspiring moves of some of our most beloved literary figures. \u003cb\u003ePercy Shelley\u003c\/b\u003e, destitute and restless, moved his tired family from one home to another, only to settle in what he came to believe was a haunted house on the Gulf of Spezia, in which he soon drowned. \u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/b\u003e, on her hunt for the perfect room of her own, was a real estate hound, and spent years trying to get back to her home in London after a nervous breakdown forced her to relocate to the country. More recently, \u003cb\u003eMark Doty \u003c\/b\u003efound selling the house he and his dying lover spent decades renovating surprisingly freeing as the couple found a new home in which to say goodbye.\u003cbr\u003eDeSalvo mines the hopes, disappointments, memories, and fears that come with that simple yet fundamental part of everyone's lives ... moving.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134161404144,"sku":"9781608191185","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608191185_p0.jpg?v=1763835009","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608191185","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}