{"product_id":"the-windows-of-brimnes-bill-holm-9781571313102","title":"The Windows of Brimnes: An American in Iceland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoet, musician, wit, and polemicist--Bill Holm is one of kind. A Minnesotan of Icelandic ancestry, his travels have taken him all over the world, providing material for a number of rich and memorable books.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this, his most ambitious work to date--a book \"as forceful, insightful, and lyrical as ever\" (\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e)--Holm travels to Brimnes, his fisherman's cottage on the shore of a fjord in northern Iceland. Looking west from this place of seemingly endless and kaleidoscopic light, and surrounded by little more than the sound of the sea and the birds beyond his windows, he considers America--\"my home, my citizenship, my burden.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of Walt Whitman and Henry Thoreau, \u003cem\u003eThe Windows of Brimnes\u003c\/em\u003e offers a singular perspective that is at once incisive and amusing, provocative and congenial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bill Holm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571313109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571313102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d","brand":"Bill Holm","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987892109567,"sku":"9781571313102","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_85e9f834-9de8-4a6c-9bb6-97bca5b21102.jpg?v=1683291468","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-windows-of-brimnes-bill-holm-9781571313102","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}