{"product_id":"unpleasantries-frank-soos-9780295998404","title":"Unpleasantries: Considerations of Difficult Questions","description":"\u003cp\u003eEven from upside-down in his recently flipped truck, Frank Soos reveals himself to be ruminative, grappling with the limitations of language to express the human condition. Moving quickly--skiing in the dark or taking long summer bike rides on Alaska highways--Soos combines an active physical life with a dark and difficult interior existence, wrestling the full span of \"thinking and doing\" onto the page with surprising lightness. His meditations move from fly-fishing in dangerously swift Alaska rivers to memories of the liars and dirty-joke tellers of his small-town Virginia childhood, revealing insights in new encounters and old preoccupations. Soos writes about pain and despair, aging, his divorce, his father's passing, regret, the loss of home, and the fear of death. But in the process of confronting these dark topics, he is full of wonder. As he writes at the end of an account of almost drowning, \"Bruised but whole, I was alive, alive, alive.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Soos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295998407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295998404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/26\/2016","brand":"Frank Soos","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45896404992255,"sku":"9780295998404","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2df63a45-1521-4a28-9cfe-f82509e48258.jpg?v=1721371311","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unpleasantries-frank-soos-9780295998404","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}