{"product_id":"again-calls-the-owl-9780440300748","title":"Again Calls the Owl","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A rich memoir . . . a woman of sensitivity, forthrightness, warmth, and talent.\"--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eTo become a writer, she chose loneliness. To write a bestseller, she embraced a rugged land.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Deceptively simple in style, stunning in its implications, this gem of an autobiography carries readers back to the beginning of the century when Margaret Craven--one a handful of women at Stanford and a groundbreaking woman journalist--made the audacious decision not to work for a living, but to work as a writer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere Margaret Craven brings vividly to life an idyllic childhood which suddenly vanishes; advice from a red-robed Gertrude Stein propped up in bed; a nearly tragic battle with blindness; and a fateful trip to a magnificently wild Pacific Northwest, a town called Kingcome . . . and her emergence, at sixty-nine, as a women who realized a dream. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eAgain Calls the Owl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A writer of compassion, humor, spirit, and persistence.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Readers will find in this small memoir courage, joy, inspiration.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An unabashed joy for living.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSanta Barbara News-Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Mass Market Paperbound\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780440300748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.76h x 4.16w x 0.38d","brand":"Margaret Craven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53514232627381,"sku":"9780440300748","price":6.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9780440300748.jpg?v=1791903126","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/again-calls-the-owl-9780440300748","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}