{"product_id":"a-common-life-david-laskin-9781416576068","title":"A Common Life: Four Generations of American Literary Friendships and Influence","description":"\u003cb\u003eDavid Laskin shares the stories of four friendships that have defined the course of American Literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty, and Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn illuminating study of the nature of friendship itself, \u003ci\u003eA Common Life \u003c\/i\u003eis a fascinating narrative of the entanglements of art and life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn each of the friendships that Laskin portrays, he demonstrates how the two writers met at a critical turning point in their lives and careers and how they profoundly affected the course of both. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A delightful, unusual and often illuminating study of a kind of influences wrought on eight famous American writers by their intimate friendships with each other.\" -- Louis Auchincloss​\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Laskin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1416576061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781416576068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/06\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d","brand":"David Laskin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44123474395391,"sku":"9781416576068","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_efa9b387-8b37-4013-8018-20cc7fa8ef13.jpg?v=1687431097","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-common-life-david-laskin-9781416576068","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}