{"product_id":"planet-claire-jeff-porter-9781617759079","title":"Planet Claire: Suite for Cello and Sad-Eyed Lovers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Few readers will fail to be gripped by this tragically common story about death and what comes after for those left behind . . . A haunting and thought-provoking consideration of death and 'how utterly it rips apart our lives.'\" --\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003ePlanet Claire\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of the untimely death of the author's wife and his candid account of the following year of madness and grief. As his life unravels, Porter analyzes his sadness with growing interest. He talks to Claire as if to evoke a presence, to mark a space for memory. He reports on his daily walks and shares observations of life's sadness, while reminiscing about various moments in their life together. Like Orpheus, the author searches for a lost love, and what he finds is not the dog of doom but flashes of an intimate symmetry that brighten the darkest places of sorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second title from Ann Hood's Gracie Belle imprint, \u003cem\u003ePlanet Claire\u003c\/em\u003e takes readers on a journey of sorrow that recalls memorable works by C.S. Lewis (\u003cem\u003eA Grief Observed\u003c\/em\u003e), Joan Didion (\u003cem\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/em\u003e), and Julian Barnes (\u003cem\u003eLevels of Life\u003c\/em\u003e). Porter's memoir, however, is also playful, quirky, and self-ironic in a way that challenges the genre's traditional solemnity. Like the novel \u003cem\u003eGrief Is the Thing with Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e by Max Porter, this is an unpredictably funny account of heartbreak, as if to say there's something about the magnitude of loss that troubles even earnestness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff Porter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1617759074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781617759079\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gracie Belle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2020","brand":"Jeff Porter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43942546505983,"sku":"9781617759079","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_2e754f20-53cf-4148-ab4e-a74235d5023d.jpg?v=1681492986","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/planet-claire-jeff-porter-9781617759079","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}