{"product_id":"misgivings-c-k-williams-9780374527280","title":"Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Voelcker career achievement award in poetry \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMisgivings\u003c\/i\u003e is C. K. William's searing recollection of his family's extreme dynamics and of his parents' deaths after years of struggle, bitterness, inner conflict, and, finally, love. Like Kafka's self-revealing \u003ci\u003eLetter to His Father\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMisgivings \u003c\/i\u003eis a full of doubt, both philosophical and personal, but as a work of art it is sure and true. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliams's father was an ordinary businessman--angry, demanding, addicted to the tension he created with the people he loved; a man who could recite the Greek myths to his son yet vowed never to apologize to anybody. Wiiiams's mother was a housewife, a woman with a great capacity for pleasure, who was stoical about the family's dire early poverty yet remained affected by it even when they became well-off. Together, these two formed what Williams calls the conspiracy that made me who I am. His account of their life together and of their deaths--his father's in a final abandonment of the will to live, his mother's with calm resignation--is a literary form of the reconciliation the family achieved at the end of his parents' lives, composed as a series of short takes, a double helix of experience and recollection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e C. K. Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374527288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374527280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.24w x 0.43d","brand":"C. K. Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919608348927,"sku":"9780374527280","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_07fef69f-ec4f-4d4a-931f-a131e940d6d1.jpg?v=1680810334","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/misgivings-c-k-williams-9780374527280","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}