{"product_id":"limited-engagement-a-way-of-living-9798987785232","title":"Limited Engagement: A Way of Living","description":"\u003cp\u003eLife is like a theater run: a limited engagement. And her approach to life, as author Jacquelyn Shah renders it in her memoir-essay collection, is grounded in limited engagement with the world and its people. Not a tell-all, how-to, or straightforward chronological narrative, and not a work from the woe-is-me angle, \u003cem\u003eLimited Engagement\u003c\/em\u003e is a creative exploration of how she came to be rooted in living and writing after a failed suicide attempt at age twenty, incited by a conviction that existence is absurd. Dubbing it a \"gallimaufry\" (jumble or medley of things), Shah has developed a work whose innards consist of sundry gobbets: narrative; quotes; excerpts of letters; poems; critiques and grievances; historical tidbits; lists; metaphor and language play. She subscribes to what David Shields said in his \u003cem\u003eReality Hunger: A Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e: \"(Ambitious) memoir isn't fundamentally a chronicle of experience; rather, memoir is the story of consciousness contending with experience.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacquelyn Sha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Choeofpleirn Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798987785232\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Choeofpleirn Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":42909852663923,"sku":"9.80E+12","price":32.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_f5e36e1d-c5d6-4ced-9478-db3ef6b94b4b.jpg?v=1741943240","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/limited-engagement-a-way-of-living-9798987785232","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}