{"product_id":"9781681370859","title":"Late Fame","description":"\u003cb\u003eA hilarious takedown of celebrity and false genius, never before available in the US.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn NYRB Classics Original\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEduard Saxberger is a quiet man who is getting on in years and has  spent the better part of them working at a desk in an office. Once upon a  time, however, he published a book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eWanderings\u003c\/i\u003e, and  one day when he returns from his usual walk he finds a young man waiting  for him. “Are you,” he wants to know, “Saxberger the poet?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs  Saxberger Saxberger the poet? Was he ever a poet? A real poet? Saxberger  hasn’t written a poem for years, but he begins to frequent the coffee  shops of Vienna with his young admirer and his no less admiring circle  of friends, and as he does he begins to yearn for a different life from  the daily round followed by rounds of drinks and billiards with familiar  buddies like Grossinger, the deli owner. And the ardent attentions of  Fräulein Gasteiner, the tragedienne, are not entirely unwelcome.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe  Hope of Young Vienna is how the young artists style themselves, and  they are arranging an event that will introduce them to the world. They  insist that the distinguished author of \u003ci\u003eWanderings\u003c\/i\u003e take part in it as well. Will he write something new for the occasion? Will he at last receive his due?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLate Fame\u003c\/i\u003e,  an unpublished novella recently rediscovered in the papers of the great  turn-of-the-century Austrian playwright and novelist Arthur Schnitzler,  is a bittersweet parable of hope lost and found.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177381052656,"sku":"9781681370859","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681370859_p0.jpg?v=1763692588","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681370859","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}