{"product_id":"9781416576068","title":"A Common Life","description":"By: David Laskin     \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Laskin shares the stories of four friendships that have defined the course of American Literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty, and Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn illuminating study of the nature of friendship itself, \u003ci\u003eA Common Life \u003c\/i\u003eis a fascinating narrative of the entanglements of art and life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn each of the friendships that Laskin portrays, he demonstrates how the two writers met at a critical turning point in their lives and careers and how they profoundly affected the course of both.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A delightful, unusual and often illuminating study of a kind of influences wrought on eight famous American writers by their intimate friendships with each other.” — Louis Auchincloss​","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46733148356835,"sku":"DTRSSUS-9781416576068","price":197.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/O_d28eacf2-6869-433f-b5e5-0c0324b7dd76.jpg?v=1750563951","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9781416576068","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}