{"product_id":"one-hundred-autobiographies-a-memoir-9781501746451","title":"One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Autobiographies\u003c\/i\u003e, poet and scholar David Lehman applies the full measure of his intellectual powers to cope with a frightening diagnosis and painful treatment for cancer. No matter how debilitating the medical procedures, Lehman wrote every day during chemotherapy and in the aftermath of radical surgery. With characteristic riffs of wit and imagination, he transmutes the details of his inner life into a prose narrative rich in incident and mental travel. The reader journeys with him from the first dreadful symptoms to the sunny days of recovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fake memoir, as he refers ironically to it, features one-hundred short vignettes that tell a life story. \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Autobiographies\u003c\/i\u003e is packed with insights and epiphanies that may prove as indispensable to aspiring writers as Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the backdrop of Manhattan, Lehman summons John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Edward Said, and Lionel Trilling among his mentors. Dostoyevsky shows up, as does Graham Greene. Keith Richards and Patti Hansen put in an appearance, Edith Piaf sings, Clint Eastwood saves the neighborhood, and the Rat Pack comes along for the ride. These and other avatars of popular culture help Lehman to make sense of his own mortality and life story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Autobiographies\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a stunning portrait of a mind against the ropes, facing its own extinction, surviving and enduring.\u003c\/p\u003e--Robert Wilson, Editor \"The American Scholar\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501746451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 6.35w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"David Lehman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36654926463132,"sku":"9781501746451","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_80001d5c-25de-4113-a248-e9b7d4de3fad.jpg?v=1603884401","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/one-hundred-autobiographies-a-memoir-9781501746451","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}