{"product_id":"between-eternities-javier-maras-9781101972113","title":"Between Eternities: And Other Writings","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings--spanning more than twenty years of work--from the internationally renowned author of \u003ci\u003eThe Infatuations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Heart So White\u003c\/i\u003e. - \"The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJavier Mar?s is a tireless examiner of the world around us: essayist, novelist, translator, voracious reader, enthusiastic debunker of pretension, and vigorous polymath. He is able to discover what many of us fail to notice or have never put into words, and he keeps looking long after most of us have turned away. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new collection of essays--by turns literary, philosophical, and autobiographical--journeys from the crumbling canals of Venice to the wide horizons of the Wild West, and Mar?s captures each new vista with razor-sharp acuity and wit. He explores, with characteristic relish, subjects ranging from soccer to classic cinema, from comic books and toy soldiers to mortality and memory, from \"The Most Conceited of Cities\" to \"Why Almost No One Can Be Trusted,\" making each brilliantly and inimitably his own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTrenchant and wry, subversive and penetrating, \u003ci\u003eBetween Eternities\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of dazzling intellectual curiosity, offering a window into the expansive mind of the man so often said to be Spain's greatest living writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Javier Mar?s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1101972114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781101972113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/28\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2018 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/21\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2018","brand":"Javier Mar?s","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43924017283327,"sku":"9781101972113","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_02d99e5f-efdb-4ddd-b889-86236f6f34b7.jpg?v=1681067993","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/between-eternities-javier-maras-9781101972113","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}