{"product_id":"laura-paperback","title":"Laura - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLarry Watson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a captivating departure, Larry Watson, \"a writer whose work is worthy of prizes\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), unveils a portrait of faith, obsession, and enduring love -- and a work of greater tenderness than anything he has yet written. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Love captures Paul Finley, in, of all places, his own bedroom -- literally waking him from his dreams. The night he discovers Laura Pettit standing at his windowsill, Paul is eleven years old, a boy naturally inclined toward seriousness, precociously adept at the art of watching the world without being watched. Laura is twenty-two, a fiercely passionate and independent poet already experiencing the first flickers of fame, a beautiful woman on the brink of seducing Paul's father. No matter; Paul is smitten. When she leaves him to rejoin the grown-ups' party downstairs, Laura issues Paul a wholly impossible command, one that will haunt and consume both of them for the rest of their lives: \"Forget me.\" \u003cbr\u003e Laying bare the inner life of one man during the course of nearly four decades, Larry Watson delivers a riveting treatise on the excruciating power of love -- and two of the most remarkable characters in recent American literature. Infused with breathtaking pathos and delicate grace, \u003ci\u003eLaura\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary triumph of the novelist's art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarry Watson was born in Rugby, North Dakota and raised in Bismarck. He is the recipient of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, a National Endowment of the Arts award, and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Regional Book Award. Watson teachers English at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Points.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 8.93 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 24, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42685616357439,"sku":"9780671567767","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/315bd8f87cfb1e1b8535f4f773ff4c2c.webp?v=1764971680","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/laura-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}