{"product_id":"laura-9780671567767","title":"Laura","description":"In a captivating departure, Larry Watson, a writer whose work is worthy of prizes (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), unveils a portrait of faith, obsession, and enduring love -- and a work of greater tenderness than anything he has yet written. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Love captures Paul Finley, in, of all places, his own bedroom -- literally waking him from his dreams. The night he discovers Laura Pettit standing at his windowsill, Paul is eleven years old, a boy naturally inclined toward seriousness, precociously adept at the art of watching the world without being watched. Laura is twenty-two, a fiercely passionate and independent poet already experiencing the first flickers of fame, a beautiful woman on the brink of seducing Paul's father. No matter; Paul is smitten. When she leaves him to rejoin the grown-ups' party downstairs, Laura issues Paul a wholly impossible command, one that will haunt and consume both of them for the rest of their lives: Forget me. \u003cbr\u003e Laying bare the inner life of one man during the course of nearly four decades, Larry Watson delivers a riveting treatise on the excruciating power of love -- and two of the most remarkable characters in recent American literature. Infused with breathtaking pathos and delicate grace, \u003ci\u003eLaura\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary triumph of the novelist's art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Washington Square Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780671567767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.93h x 5.20w x 0.85d","brand":"Larry Watson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36639792988316,"sku":"9780671567767","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7020b625-6b51-4c6b-b738-86b11e33f91a.jpg?v=1603850609","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/laura-9780671567767","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}