{"product_id":"middlemarch-and-the-imperfect-life-bookmarked-9781632461315","title":"Middlemarch and the Imperfect Life: Bookmarked","description":"\"In this trenchant memoir of reading and writing, Pamela Erens returns over a lifetime to George Eliot's \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e. The calm, understanding, and generosity that she finds in Eliot's masterpiece--albeit differently, at different moments in her own life--inflects Erens's own account of becoming, and being, a mother and a writer. This short book is filled with wisdom.\"--\u003cb\u003eClaire Messud\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eKant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write and The Woman Upstairs\u003c\/i\u003e\"Erens makes an engaging and convincing case for the value of reading \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch \u003c\/i\u003etoday, when we are still struggling to answer the questions it raises--about marriage, about community, about society, and especially about how to balance our individual needs and desires against the claims of sympathy and conscience.\"--\u003cb\u003eRohan Maitzen\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003eWidening the Skirts of Light: Essays on George Eliot and Middlemarch for Book Clubs\u003c\/i\u003e\"Thoughtful, frank, and always artful, \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch and the Imperfect Life\u003c\/i\u003e is an involving and deeply satisfying account of the reading and writing life.\"--\u003cb\u003eRebecca Mead\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003eMy Life in Middlemarch \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHome\/Land\u003c\/i\u003eA masterly evocation of life in a provincial English community, \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch \u003c\/i\u003eis considered perhaps the greatest novel of the Victorian era, praised by writers from Emily Dickinson to Virginia Woolf. In the latest volume in Ig's acclaimed Bookmarked series, critically lauded author Pamela Erens talks about how \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch \u003c\/i\u003e\"rescued\" her, first as a distressed college student, and then during the tragic events of the global pandemic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ig Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632461315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/14\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pamela Erens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41635515564213,"sku":"9781632461315","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_25854280-2a74-4b29-b6c6-c8bb885e50e3.jpg?v=1645502149","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/middlemarch-and-the-imperfect-life-bookmarked-9781632461315","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}