{"product_id":"the-correspondence-paperback","title":"The Correspondence - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. D. Daniels\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first collection from a Whiting Writers' Award winner whose work has become a fixture of \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCan civilization save us from ourselves? That is the question J. D. Daniels asks in his first book, a series of six letters written during dark nights of the soul. Working from his own highly varied experience--as a janitor, a night watchman, an adjunct professor, a drunk, an exterminator, a dutiful son--he considers how far books and learning and psychoanalysis can get us, and how much we're stuck in the mud. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn prose wound as tight as a copper spring, Daniels takes us from the highways of his native Kentucky to the Balearic Islands and from the Pampas of Brazil to the rarefied precincts of Cambridge, Massachusetts. His traveling companions include psychotic kindergarten teachers, Israeli sailors, and Southern Baptists on fire for Christ. In each dispatch, Daniels takes risks--not just literary (voice, tone, form) but also more immediate, such as spending two years on a Brazilian jiu-jitsu team (he gets beaten to a pulp, repeatedly) or participating in group psychoanalysis (where he goes temporarily insane). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDaniels is that rare thing, a writer completely in earnest whose wit never deserts him, even in extremis. Inventive, intimate, restless, streetwise, and erudite, \u003ci\u003eThe Correspondence\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a brave and original observer of the inner life under pressure.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. D. Daniels\u003c\/b\u003e is the recipient of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e's 2013 Terry Southern Prize. His \"Letter from Majorca\" was selected for \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays 2013\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. \u003ci\u003eThe Correspondence \u003c\/i\u003eis his debut book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736834314303,"sku":"9780374537425","price":20.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e57d102e540a190e7b8f1e4612cd49aa.webp?v=1765148014","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-correspondence-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}