{"product_id":"crabcakes-a-memoir-9780684847962","title":"Crabcakes: A Memoir","description":"With the same grace and lyrical precision that distinguish his vibrant short stories, James McPherson surveys the emotional upheaval of his last twenty-one years. From Baltimore, Maryland, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Iowa and Japan, \u003ci\u003eCrabcakes\u003c\/i\u003e witnesses McPherson's confrontation with the past, and his struggle to make sense of it and to bind it, peacefully, to the present. His elliptical search for meaning -- and his ultimate understanding of what makes us human -- finds in \u003ci\u003eCrabcakes\u003c\/i\u003e a powerful and enduring voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Alan McPherson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Touchstone Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.32h x 5.56w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780684847962\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Alan McPherson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eHue and Cry, Railroad, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eElbow Room, \u003c\/i\u003e for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978. His essays and short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals -- including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Newsday, Plough-shares, The Iowa Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDouble-Take\u003c\/i\u003e -- and anthologies such as volumes of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eO. Henry Prize Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e McPherson has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Prize Fellows Award. He is currently a professor of English at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Iowa City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Touchstone Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44233570844787,"sku":"9.78068E+12","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_05eba258-fd53-4cc8-b186-c315da9ba428.jpg?v=1768743877","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/crabcakes-a-memoir-9780684847962","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}