{"product_id":"still-life","title":"Still Life","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStill Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e has been named a best book of the year by NPR and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e magazine. Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConfronted with a terminal cancer diagnosis, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJay Hopler\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--author of the National Book Award-finalist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Abridged History of Rainfall\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--got to work. The result of that labor is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStill Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, a collection of poems that are heartbreaking, terrifying, and deeply, darkly hilarious. In an attempt to find meaning in a life ending right before his eyes, Hopler squares off against monsters real and imagined, personal and historical, and tries not to flinch. This work is no elegy; it's a testament to courage, love, compassion, and the fierceness of the human heart. It's a violently funny but playfully serious fulfillment of what Arseny Tarkovsky called the fundamental purpose of art: a way to prepare for death, be it far in the future or very near at hand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardcover \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished: USA, 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: McSweeneys Books\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLanguages: English\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePages: 63\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 13: 9781952119378\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 10: 1952119375\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jay Hopler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44720761766154,"sku":"","price":21.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/31aouJnR3QL._SY445_SX342.jpg?v=1694850932","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/still-life","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}