{"product_id":"9781925143942","title":"Night Letters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery night for twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, an Australian man recently diagnosed with an incurable disease writes a letter home to a friend. In these letters, against a rich background of earlier journeys in literature, with Dante as his imagined guide, he reflects on what it means to live a good life in the face of death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eNight Letters\u003c\/em\u003e by Robert Dessaix\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Dessaix writes with great elegance, with passion, compassion and sly wit. Literally, a wonderful book.’ John Banville\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘An absolutely unique book: intelligent, funny, rich, tender at the right moments, a plum pudding of stories, observations and discoveries.’ Alberto Manguel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eNight Letters\u003c\/em\u003e is exhilarating. The goads, the teasing, the question marks fired up into the atmosphere make any passive reading of it quite impossible.’ \u003cem\u003eThe Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xou Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50077625352432,"sku":"9781925143942","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781925143942_p0.jpg?v=1784751435","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781925143942","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}