{"product_id":"writers","title":"Writers","description":"In \u003ci\u003eWriters\u003c\/i\u003e, great American storyteller Barry Gifford paints portraits of famous writers caught in imaginary vulnerable moments in their lives. In prose that is funny, grotesque, and a touch brutal, Gifford shows these writers at their most human, which is to say at their worst: they are liars, frauds, lousy lovers, and drunks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a world in which Ernest Hemingway drunkenly sets explosive trip wires outside his home in Cuba, Marcel Proust implores the angel of death as a delirious Arthur Rimbaud lies dying in a hospital bed, and Albert Camus converses with a young prostitute while staring at himself in the mirror of a New York City hotel room.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Gifford's house of mirrors, we are offered a unique perspective on this group of literary greats. These stories, meant to be performed as plays, are tender and thoughtful exercises in empathy. Obsessions loom large, especially a preoccupation with death. Gifford asks: What does it mean to devote oneself entirely to art  And as an artist, what defines failure, or success \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new edition of \u003ci\u003eWriters\u003c\/i\u003e includes five new pieces, featuring Georges Simenon with André Gide, Franz Kafka with Marcel Proust, Flannery O Connor with William Burroughs, Ivan Turgenev with Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Joseph Conrad with D.H. Lawrence, and Willa Cather with Gypsy Rose Lee.","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53793987887442,"sku":"9781644212868","price":20.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_d0f2a1e8-95d9-428b-8988-1da4ae196a7f.jpg?v=1781850910","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/writers","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}