{"product_id":"enough-about-you-david-shields-9781593762193","title":"Enough about You: Notes Toward the New Autobiography","description":"What does it mean to construct a self? What does it mean to turn your life into a narrative? What's gained? What's lost? What lies inevitably get told? What deeper truths are reached or at least reached for? \u003ci\u003eEnough About You\u003c\/i\u003e has no answers to these questions, but it frames and asks these questions in a much more overt, honest, precise, and provocative way than any book has attempted yet, and tries to do so while also delivering the pleasures of narrative, of memoir, of search-for-self.\u003cbr\u003eWith moving and often hilarious candor, Shields explores the connections between fiction and nonfiction, stuttering and writing, literary forms and literary contents, art and life; he confronts bad reviews of his earlier books; he examines why he read a college girlfriend's journal; he raids a wide range of cultural figures (from Rousseau, Nabokov, and Salinger to Bill Murray, Adam Sandler, and Bobby Knight) for what they have to tell him about himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnough About You\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about David Shields. But it is also a terrifically engrossing exploration and exploitation of self-reflection, self-absorption, full-blown narcissism, and the impulse to write about oneself. In a world awash with memoirs and tell-alls, Shields has created something unique: he invites the reader into his mind as he turns his life into a narrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Shields\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1593762194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781593762193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Soft Skull\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.56w x 0.53d","brand":"David Shields","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057114345727,"sku":"9781593762193","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e9ae2bae-adb4-4ef9-a91c-45aed2efa8c1.jpg?v=1685045115","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/enough-about-you-david-shields-9781593762193","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}