{"product_id":"148-charles-street-9781496229748","title":"148 Charles Street","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496229748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 158","brand":"Tracy Daugherty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41574642516149,"sku":"9781496229748","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_57a5c283-ae52-4453-a6ed-01495d1c18ef.jpg?v=1643697181","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/148-charles-street-9781496229748","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}