{"product_id":"the-art-of-time-in-sven-birkerts-9781555974893","title":"The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations of key but sometimes neglected aspects of creative writing by some of contemporary literature's finest practioners.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Time in Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, critic and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. By examining memoirs such as Vladimir Nabokov's \u003ci\u003eSpeak, Memory\u003c\/i\u003e; Virginia Woolf's unfinished \u003ci\u003eA Sketch of the Past\u003c\/i\u003e; and Mary Karr's \u003ci\u003eThe Liars' Club\u003c\/i\u003e, Birkerts describes the memoirist's essential art of assembling patterns of meaning, stirring to life our own sense of past and present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sven Birkerts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555974899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555974893\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/26\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 5.10w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2008 pg. 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/19\/2007","brand":"Sven Birkerts","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049276305663,"sku":"9781555974893","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_efe05c6d-6d10-4d38-8839-d88e5da9aa84.jpg?v=1685000648","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-art-of-time-in-sven-birkerts-9781555974893","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}