{"product_id":"here-and-now-letters-2008-2011-9780143124917","title":"Here and Now: Letters 2008-2011","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"[A] civilized discourse between two cultivated and sophisticated men. . . . It's a pleasure to be in their company.\" --Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ.M. Coetzee's latest novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Schooldays of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e, is now available from Viking. \u003ci\u003eLate Essays: 2006-2016\u003c\/i\u003e will be available January 2018. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter a meeting at an Australian literary festival brought them together in 2008, novelists Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee began exchanging letters on a regular basis with the hope they might \"strike sparks off each other.\" \u003ci\u003eHere and Now \u003c\/i\u003eis the result: a three-year epistolary dialogue that touches on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, literature to film, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, death, eroticism, marriage, friendship, and love. Their high-spirited and luminous correspondence offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of these two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and reveal their pleasure in each other's friendship on every page.\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 03\/04\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143124917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/06\/2014 pg. 34\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Paul Auster, J. M. Coetzee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43251343032501,"sku":"9780143124917","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_bddb4a8c-4f7c-4ed0-a441-e840f5a3b8ce.jpg?v=1699371038","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/here-and-now-letters-2008-2011-9780143124917","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}