{"product_id":"9781609806491","title":"Writers","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWriters\u003c\/i\u003e, great American storyteller Barry Gifford paints portraits of famous writers caught in imaginary vulnerable moments in their lives. In prose that is funny, grotesque, and a touch brutal, Gifford shows these writers at their most human, which is to say at their worst: they are liars, frauds, lousy lovers, and drunks. This is a world in which Ernest Hemingway drunkenly sets explosive trip wires outside his home in Cuba, Marcel Proust implores the angel of death as a delirious Arthur Rimbaud lies dying in a hospital bed, and Albert Camus converses with a young prostitute while staring at himself in the mirror of a New York City hotel room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Gifford's house of mirrors, we are offered a unique perspective on this group of literary greats. We see their obsessions loom large, and none more than a shared needling preoccupation with mortality. And yet these stories, which are meant to be performed as plays, are also tender and thoughtful exercises in empathy. Gifford asks: What does it means to devote oneself entirely to art? And as an artist, what defines success and failure?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049384853744,"sku":"9781609806491","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781609806491_p0.jpg?v=1763842307","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609806491","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}