{"product_id":"148-charles-street-paperback","title":"148 Charles Street - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTracy Daugherty\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracy Daugherty's historical novel \u003ci\u003e148 Charles Street\u003c\/i\u003e explores the fascinating story of Willa Cather's friendship with Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. The women shared a passion for writing, for New York, and for the desert Southwest, but their sensibilities could not have been more different: Cather, the novelist of lyrical landscapes and aesthetic refinement, and Sergeant, the muckraking journalist and literary activist. Their friendship is sorely tested when Cather fictionalizes a war that Sergeant covered as a reporter, calling into question, for both women, the uses of art and journalism, the power of imagination and witness. \u003ci\u003e148 Charles Street \u003c\/i\u003eis a testament to the bonds that endure despite disagreements and misunderstandings, and in the relentlessness of a vanishing past. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e148 Charles Street \u003c\/i\u003eexplores, as only fiction can, the two writers' interior lives, and contrasts Sergeant's literary activism with Cather's more purely aesthetic approach to writing. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracy Daugherty \u003c\/b\u003eis distinguished emeritus professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University. In addition to biographies of Joan Didion and Joseph Heller, he has published several novels, including \u003ci\u003eHigh Skies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAxeman's Jazz\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boy Orator\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDesire Provoked\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhat Falls Away\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 158\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47382320578738,"sku":"9781496229748","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/fbac8975d2895306aef4784db7e906fb.webp?v=1777833059","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/148-charles-street-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}