{"product_id":"serious-daring-susan-letzler-cole-9781682260111","title":"Serious Daring: The Fiction and Photography of Eudora Welty and Rosamond Purcell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSerious Daring\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the complementary journeys of two American women artists, celebrated fiction writer Eudora Welty and internationally acclaimed photographer Rosamond Purcell, each of whom initially practiced, but then turned from, the art form ultimately pursued by the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor both Welty and Purcell, the art realized is full of the art seemingly abandoned. Welty's short stories and novels use images of photographs, photographers, and photography. Purcell photographed books, texts, and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth women make compelling art out of the seeming tension between literary and visual cultures. Purcell wrote a memoir in which photographs became endnotes. Welty re-emerged as a photographer through the publication of four volumes of what she called her \"snapshots,\" magnificent black-and-white photographs of small-town Mississippi and New York City life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSerious Daring\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating look at how the road not taken can stubbornly accompany the chosen path, how what is seemingly left behind can become a haunting and vital presence in life and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Letzler Cole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1682260119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682260111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arkansas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2017","brand":"Susan Letzler Cole","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49082873839871,"sku":"9781682260111","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/serious-daring-susan-letzler-cole-9781682260111","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}