{"product_id":"the-end-of-youth-9780872864184","title":"The End of Youth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe End of Youth \u003c\/em\u003eis a collection of 13 linked stories, essays and rants, about carrying on after youth's hope is gone. In Afraid of the Dark, a child learns that there is good reason to be afraid. The adolescent narrator of Description of a Struggle finds that love can be brutal. The Smokers examines an adult's realization that longevity means seeing loved ones die. Written with the same spare and vivid beauty as her earlier award-winning works, \u003cem\u003eThe End of Youth \u003c\/em\u003eis certain to win even wider acclaim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout her writing career, Brown has exhibited a rare sensitivity in delving into difficult, uncomfortable material--death, disease, imperfect bodies and minds . . . in this slim book . . . there's also humor and sensuality so intense it's visionary . . . --\u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA strange and wonderful first-person voice emerges from the stories of Rebecca Brown, who strips her language of convention to lay bare the ferocious rituals of love and need.--\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRarer than the newness, the wit, the vivid readability, is the deep caring understanding, the wholeness, the truth with which this astonishing, haunting writer creates her people.--Tillie Olsen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The End of Youth, her new collection of stories and essays, Brown turns  a] gentle yet relentless gaze onto herself--or rather, onto scenes remembered from her childhood. The result is effortlessly perverse and frequently hilarious.--\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRebecca Brown \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Terrible Girls, Annie Oakley's Girl, The Gifts of the Body \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e City Lights Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872864184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.32h x 5.02w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2003 pg. 410\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLambda Book Report\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2004 pg. 15\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rebecca Brown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42114516418741,"sku":"9780872864184","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6b406ba0-4f2b-4e31-a363-b9dba3c9f2de.jpg?v=1652151579","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-end-of-youth-9780872864184","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}