{"product_id":"letters-from-max-sarah-ruhl-9781571313751","title":"Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eKIRKUS\u003c\/em\u003e BEST BOOK OF 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the next four years--in which Ritvo's illness returned and his health declined, even as his productivity bloomed--the two exchanged letters that spark with urgency, humor, and the desire for connection. Reincarnation, books, the afterlife as an Amtrak quiet car, good soup: in Ruhl and Ritvo's exchanges, all ideas are fair, nourishing game, shared and debated in a spirit of generosity and love. \"We'll always know one another forever, however long ever is,\" Ritvo writes. \"And that's all I want--is to know you forever.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudded with poems and songs, \u003cem\u003eLetters from Max\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and the afterlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Ruhl, Max Ritvo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571313753\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571313751\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Sarah Ruhl","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994280591615,"sku":"9781571313751","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_447ba9b7-9659-48d4-ac1b-f6011719ca78.jpg?v=1683329206","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/letters-from-max-sarah-ruhl-9781571313751","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}