{"product_id":"divine-madness-9798985312409","title":"Divine Madness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Cal . . . wants to move back in with me into our old apartment on 67th Street across from Central Park. It's where we lived for most of the twenty-one years of our marriage until he left me for Caroline. It's where I've lived for the past seven years without Cal.\" \u003cem\u003eCal\u003c\/em\u003e is purportedly Robert Lowell, the sixth Poet Laureate of the United States, and the speaker, \"Lizzie,\" is Elizabeth Hardwick, a writer and critic whose true-life partnership with Lowell was marked by his mental illness and desertion. Yet award-winning playwright Lynne Kaufman's spare, poetic novel is far deeper-and more disturbing-than a harrowing account of a famously unhappy marriage. As the fictional \"manuscript\" progresses, Lizzie's persona of humiliated, martyred wife gradually dissolves into a rich labyrinth of references-from her friendships with Mary McCarthy and Hannah Arendt to her memories of the Civil Rights movement and her Southern childhood, from the Holocaust to \u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e-that may (or may not) illuminate the complex dynamics of attachment. In this enigmatic deconstruction of an age-old tragedy, Kaufman has composed an intriguing and intense elegy that marks the shadowlands where fiction, reality, and writerly personas converge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tailwinds Press Enterprises LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798985312409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.54d","brand":"Lynne Kaufman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42021958713525,"sku":"9798985312409","price":11.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a004b400-ec7e-436a-9dae-1e22647e20e7.jpg?v=1649301543","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/divine-madness-9798985312409","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}