{"product_id":"twenty-eight-artists-and-two-saints-essays-9780307275769","title":"Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joan Acocella\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Vintage Books USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and two saints: Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene). Acocella writes about Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and chemist, who wrote the classic memoir, \u003ci\u003eSurvival in Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e; M.F.K. Fisher who, numb with grief over her husband's suicide, dictated the witty and classic \u003ci\u003eHow to Cook a Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e; and many other subjects, including Dorothy Parker, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Saul Bellow. \u003ci\u003eTwenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints\u003c\/i\u003e is indispensable reading on the making of art--and the courage, perseverance, and, sometimes, dumb luck that it requires.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Books USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45088083312791,"sku":"9780307275769","price":1280.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780307275769.webp?v=1767641295","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/twenty-eight-artists-and-two-saints-essays-9780307275769","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}