{"product_id":"literary-lives-9781596910645","title":"Literary Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eAward-winning caricaturist Edward Sorel uses his distinctive style to illustrate the strange and eccentric lives of ten iconic literary figures. Literary Lives features the brief  unauthorized biographies of ten larger-than-life literary figures: Tolstoy  Sartre  Eliot  Proust  Yeats  Brecht  Jung  Rand  Mailer  and Hellman. Amusing and sometimes hard to believe (but always absolutely true)  Sorels vignettes depict  among other sparkling moments  Proust investing in a male brothel so he can peep at its clientele through a keyhole; Rand launching a torrid affair with a protg half her age; Hellman pleading the Fifth in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities; Yeats attending his first sance; Simone de Beauvoir supplying Sartre with her students for his pleasure; Jung cozying up with the Nazis; Norman Mailers disastrous candidacy for Mayor of New York; and Tolstoy setting his peasants free (and they  in turn  refusing to be emancipated).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118269685813,"sku":"ByrdShop_159691064X","price":60.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781596910645.jpg?v=1781677910","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/literary-lives-9781596910645","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}