{"product_id":"shorter-lives-paperback","title":"Shorter Lives - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn A. Scott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One might have thought the lives of some of the writers and artists within this book - Woolf, Rimbaud, Picasso - had been written to the point where little more could be offered, but Scott's distillations are a fresh and intriguing \u003cem\u003emaking new\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShorter Lives\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e plunges below the received biographies to disinter the emotional, psychological, erotic and other secrets that arguably underpin, explain and give force to their work. The results are sometimes unsettling, sometimes confounding, sometimes electric, and almost always absorbing. More to the point, they contain a deep probing of Modernity itself, a looking backward to better understand our current aesthetic and the challenges it faces.\"\u003cbr\u003e - David Brooks\u003cbr\u003e author of \u003cem\u003eThe Fern Tattoo, The Conversation, The Grass Library\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShorter Lives'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e histories of notable creators drift away from conventional tellings to offer alternative facts and believable untruths. No small part of the author's research, however, has been the trawling of existing biographies for unrepresentative, yet documented, instances of the bizarre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn our post-truth world of fake news and mythmaking, Scott's revised biographies make a significant contribution to both speculative fiction and the developing field of non-fiction poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 146\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351622041849,"sku":"9781925780482","price":24.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Z0V1VFVPQitaeGcxaWZ0TURVOUxsZz09.webp?v=1769800656","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/shorter-lives-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}