{"product_id":"difficult-beauty-lauren-crux-9781944497088","title":"Difficult Beauty: Rambles, Rants and Intimate Conversations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Difficult Beauty: Rambles, Rants and Intimate Conversations\"\u003c\/em\u003e by fine artist and writer Lauren Crux, pairs 66 full-color images from Lauren's long standing photography practice with her frank musings that initially started as a mail art project. A book that offers the reader bits of daily life, in which little things go vast. A visual and contemplative balm to the spirit: for who in these times cannot use a bit of comfort, intelligence, and good humor? \"The rambles balance intimacy with openness, artistry with colloquial thought and speech. Crux's gaze is simultaneous vast and minute (which I am coming, I think, to understand, is the way of the soul of Lauren Crux). Just when we think we've come on a silly throw away line, or a cliché, or a normal point of view, she turns the phrase and raise the stakes on us. But she's not showing off. She's just talking to us.\" -Camille Dungy, author of \u003cem\u003e\"Soil: the Story of a Black Mother's Garden\"\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e\"Guidebook to Relative Strangers\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lauren Crux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1944497080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781944497088\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Many Names Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.45d","brand":"Lauren Crux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44133432426751,"sku":"9781944497088","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_37e4300d-8f44-4d4b-b3d1-bdfa583284fc.jpg?v=1687486086","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/difficult-beauty-lauren-crux-9781944497088","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}