{"product_id":"letters-from-max-a-poet-a-teacher-a-friendship-9781571313751","title":"Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship","description":"In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Over the next four years--in which Ritvo's illness returned and his health declined, even as his productivity bloomed--the two exchanged letters that spark with urgency, humor, and the desire for connection. Reincarnation, books, the afterlife as an Amtrak quiet car, good soup: in Ruhl and Ritvo's exchanges, all ideas are fair, nourishing game, shared and debated in a spirit of generosity and love. \"We'll always know one another forever, however long ever is,\" Ritvo writes. \"And that's all I want--is to know you forever.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Studded with poems and songs, \u003ci\u003eLetters from Max\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and the afterlife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571313751\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Sarah Ruhl, Max Ritvo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36660147519644,"sku":"9781571313751","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_eeabb295-84c9-48db-8168-147e47589bca.jpg?v=1603896204","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/letters-from-max-a-poet-a-teacher-a-friendship-9781571313751","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}