{"product_id":"the-heart-is-an-instrument-madeleine-blais-9780870239427","title":"The Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism","description":"From the foreword by Geneva Overholser. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat is it about really fine writers, how they delight, intrigue, compel us? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStyle, you say. But style is not something you begin with. Rather, it's what you end up with, a result of far more fundamental traits. Traits such as an ear and an eye and a heart, traits that Madeliene Blais has honed superbly well. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a book well named: \u003ci\u003eThe Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism. The\u003c\/i\u003e heart is surely first among Blais's gifts. Whether she is writing about the famous--playwright tennessee Williams, novelist Mary Gordon--or about the least elevated among us--a teenage prostitute infected with the AIDS virus, a homeless schizophrenic--she brings to her subjects an incomparable empathy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Madeleine Blais\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0870239422\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870239427\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.74h x 5.46w x 0.96d","brand":"Madeleine Blais","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44131263447295,"sku":"9780870239427","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d56d7ab0-ab7d-42f6-8ec3-0768684dac40.jpg?v=1687473870","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-heart-is-an-instrument-madeleine-blais-9780870239427","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}