{"product_id":"best-thought-worst-thought-don-paterson-9781555975050","title":"Best Thought, Worst Thought: On Art, Sex, Work and Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Contentious, rude, hilarious, moving, and truthful. A book you'll dip into for the rest of your life.\" --Ian Rankin\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe male genitals are worn externally as evolution is in the process of expelling them from the body. Another million years and they'll be stored in a drawer.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eBest Thought, Worst Thought\u003c\/i\u003e, the award-winning Scottish poet Don Paterson has assembled a comic, intelligent, and cranky collection of brief truths and conjectures and, in the process, revitalizes the classic pith of the aphorism. \"The form's only virtue is its brevity,\" Paterson writes; \"at least the reader cannot seriously hold that it has wasted their time.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Don Paterson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555975054\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555975050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 6.30w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/16\/2008 pg. 33\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2008 pg. 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2009 pg. 271","brand":"Don Paterson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088556929279,"sku":"9781555975050","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_698573e4-bb6f-4d17-823b-e0f806526392.jpg?v=1769105429","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/best-thought-worst-thought-don-paterson-9781555975050","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}