{"product_id":"familiar-spirits-a-memoir-of-james-merrill-and-david-jackson-9780142000458","title":"Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson","description":"\u003cb\u003eAlison Lurie\u003c\/b\u003e, one of America's greatest novelists, has written a loving memoir of world-famous poet James Merrill and his longtime partner David Jackson. Drawing on her forty-year friendship with Merrill and Jackson, Lurie reveals the couple's deep involvement with ghosts, gods, and spirits, with whom they communicated through a Ouija board. Among the results of their intense twenty-year preoccupation with the occult is the brilliant book-length poem \"The Changing Light at Sandover\", which Merrill called his \"chronicles of love and loss.\" Recalling Merrill and Jackson's life together in New York, Athens, and Key West, \u003cb\u003eFamiliar Spirits\u003c\/b\u003e is a poignant memoir infused with great affection and generous amounts of Lurie's signature wit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780142000458\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.08h x 5.52w x 0.52d","brand":"Alison Lurie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52604370256053,"sku":"9780142000458","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/familiar-spirits-a-memoir-of-james-merrill-and-david-jackson-9780142000458","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}