{"product_id":"beautiful-raft-tina-barry-9781945917493","title":"Beautiful Raft","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"What I love so much about Beautiful Raft is how Barry's curiosity turned into a fury-fueled exploration of how and why the partners of famous men are often ignored.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Robert Vaughan, Funhouse, Addicts and Basements, Rift (with Kathy Fish)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1946, the artist Marc Chagall and his young lover Virginia Haggard moved from New York City to rural High Falls, New York. Local newspapers and magazines made much of Chagall's arrival, but Haggard, the tall, pretty woman in the photos with her daughter Jean McNeil, was given little more than a name. The prose poems and hybrids in Tina Barry's Beautiful Raft, written in Haggard's and McNeil's voices, allow the women to tell their story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From blini 'in a cape of butter, tipping a caviar hat' to visits from Pierre Matisse who 'leans against an ivory-carved walking stick he doesn't need, ' Barry offers a poetic succession of taut, highly charged prose poems. Kaleidoscopic in style, the book shifts from page to page, casting a different light on this loving but uneasy relationship in this deftly constructed and haunting collection.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Alexandra van de Kamp, Kiss\/Hierarchy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tina Barry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1945917490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945917493\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Big Table Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.22d","brand":"Tina Barry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941015191807,"sku":"9781945917493","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ab803d3e-8f07-4a7a-ba26-576d2f10b382.jpg?v=1681450428","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beautiful-raft-tina-barry-9781945917493","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}