{"product_id":"still-no-word-from-you-notes-in-the-margin-9781646221363","title":"Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of \u003ci\u003eAm I Alone Here?\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStationed in the South Pacific during World War II, Seymour Orner wrote a letter every day to his wife, Lorraine. She seldom responded, leading him to plead in 1945, \"Another day and still no word from you.\" Seventy years later, Peter Orner writes in response to his grandfather's plea: \"Maybe we read because we seek that word from someone, from anyone.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the acclaimed fiction writer about whom Dwight Garner of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e wrote, \"You know from the second you pick him up that he's the real deal,\" comes \u003ci\u003eStill No Word from You\u003c\/i\u003e, a unique chain of essays and intimate stories that meld the lived life and the reading life. For Orner, there is no separation. Covering such well-known writers as Lorraine Hansberry, Primo Levi, and Marilynne Robinson, as well as other greats like Maeve Brennan and James Alan McPherson, Orner's highly personal take on literature alternates with his own true stories of loss and love, hope and despair. In his mother's copy of \u003ci\u003eA Coney Island of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, he's stopped short by a single word in the margin, \"YES!\"--which leads him to conjure his mother at twenty-three. He stops reading Penelope Fitzgerald's \u003ci\u003eThe Beginning of Spring\u003c\/i\u003e three quarters of the way through because he knows that finishing the novel will leave him bereft. Orner's solution is to start again from the beginning to slow the inevitable heartache. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill No Word from You\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for anyone for whom reading is as essential as breathing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catapult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646221363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/06\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Peter Orner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42334551507125,"sku":"9781646221363","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a26cfaf3-c4e5-4919-a38a-a9266988977c.jpg?v=1660629056","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/still-no-word-from-you-notes-in-the-margin-9781646221363","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}