{"product_id":"97196-words-essays-9780374178208","title":"97 196 Words: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eA selection of the best short work by Frances greatest living nonfiction writer  A New York Times Notable Books of 2020  No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carrre. Although he takes cues from such literary heroes as Truman Capote and Janet Malcolm  Carrre has  over the course of his career  reinvented the form in a search for truth in all its guises. Dispensing with the rules of genre  he takes what he needs from every available form or disciplinebe it theology  historiography  fiction  reportage  or memoirand fuses it under the pressure of an inimitable combination of passion  curiosity  intellect  and wit. With an oeuvre unique in world literature for its blend of empathy and playfulness  Carrre stands as one of our most distinctive and important literary voices.  97 196 Words introduces Carrres shorter works to an English-language audience. Featuring more than thirty extraordinary essays written over an illustrious twenty-five-year period of Carrres creative life  this collection shows an exceptional mind at work. Spanning continents  histories  and personal relationships  and treating everything from American heroin addicts to the writing of In Cold Blood  from the philosophy of Philip K. Dick to a single haunting sentence in a minor story by H. P. Lovecraft  from Carrres own botched interview with Catherine Deneuve to the week he spent following the future French president Emmanuel Macron  97 196 Words considers the divides between truth  reality  and our shared humanity as it explores remarkable events and eccentric lives  including Carrres own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647889236021,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374178208","price":27.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374178208.jpg?v=1781699003","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/97196-words-essays-9780374178208","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}