{"product_id":"9781771961011","title":"The Life-Writer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA New York Times Notable Book 2016\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn October Indie Next List “Great Reads” Pick\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the death of her beloved husband, Katrin, a literary biographer, copes with the loss by writing his personal history. While researching the letters and journals he left behind, however, she comes to the devastating conclusion that his life before their marriage was far richer than the one they shared. To understand and recreate the period of his greatest happiness—hitch-hiking through France as a young man, madly in love with his companion, a French girl named Monique—Katrin embarks on a heartbreaking journey to discover the man she never fully knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid Constantine \u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning short story writer, poet, and, translator. The title story of his North American debut collection of short fiction, \u003ci\u003eIn Another Country: Selected Stories \u003c\/i\u003e (Biblioasis, 2015) was adapted into the Academy Award–nominated feature film \u003ci\u003e45 Years\u003c\/i\u003e . He is the author of one previous novel, \u003ci\u003eDavies\u003c\/i\u003e , as well as four collections of short stories in the United Kingdom, and five collections of poetry. He lives in Oxford, England, where until 2012 he edited \u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation \u003c\/i\u003e with his wife Helen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037508583664,"sku":"9781771961011","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781771961011_p0.jpg?v=1769890786","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781771961011","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}