{"product_id":"departures-paul-zweig-9781590512913","title":"Departures: A Memoir","description":"\u003ci\u003eDepartures \u003c\/i\u003eis Paul Zweig's celebration of life and love. Zweig thought of himself as a sojourner, a contemporary Wandering Jew, a man with \"a loose wire in his genes.\" He led a number of distinct lives: as a Jewish child in Brooklyn and on a farm in the Catskills; as a literature student at Columbia; as a young exile who spent a decade in Paris transforming himself into a French intellectual, absorbing the language, sex, culture, and leftist politics; and as an American man-of-letters who produced a steady stream of poems, essays, and wide-ranging works of literary scholarship and criticism. In 1978, at the age of forty-three, he abruptly entered a new life--\"the life of the dying\"--which he inhabited for the next six years. His writing was guided by a steely determination to hold the more pressing and distorting sentiments--self-pity, regret, anger, fear--at bay for the sake of his lucidity, which became his way through the world of cancer. This memoir stands as a testament to the passion and spirit with which Zweig lived and to the dignity that he brought to his final years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Zweig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 159051291X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590512913\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Other Press (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.11w x 0.75d","brand":"Paul Zweig","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46420307673343,"sku":"9781590512913","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_18cd5a0b-15af-40e1-8038-67c362ef717d.jpg?v=1734634245","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/departures-paul-zweig-9781590512913","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}