{"product_id":"walls-kenneth-mcclane-9780268035204","title":"Walls: Essays 1985-1990","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalls: Essays, 1985-1990\u003c\/i\u003e, Kenneth McClane's first book of autobiographical essays (originally published in 1991), is closely related to his second collection, \u003ci\u003eColor\u003c\/i\u003e, published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2009. Walls is a powerful and deeply moving meditation on relationships. It begins with an essay on the death of McClane's brother, Paul, which \"changed everything. Time, my work, everything found a new calculus.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis brother's life and death are present in some way in all the essays that follow \"A Death in the Family,\" as McClane tells us about giving a poetry reading in a maximum-security prison; his experience of being one of the first two African American students to attend America's oldest private school; teaching creative writing; his sister, Adrienne; a divestment protest at Cornell; and his encounters with James Baldwin. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcClane has written a new preface to this paperback edition of Walls, in which he reminds us that we are inevitably interconnected: we are each other's witness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kenneth a. McClane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268035202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268035204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.48h x 5.50w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/29\/2010","brand":"Kenneth a. McClane","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056717328639,"sku":"9780268035204","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_499febc2-3a0d-49b0-a8d6-420d2c7e89e7.jpg?v=1685042867","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/walls-kenneth-mcclane-9780268035204","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}