{"product_id":"148-charles-street-a-novel-paperback-softback-9781496229748","title":"148 Charles Street; A Novel (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496229748","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003e148 Charles Street\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTracy Daugherty (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496229748\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 April 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e158 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Deftly crafted writing, a genuine flair for portraying memorable characters, attention to historical detail, \u003ci\u003e148 Charles Street\u003c\/i\u003e is an eloquent, entertaining, and thought-provoking read from first page to last.\"-\u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“I can think of few novelists who have written so unerringly about literary ambition, especially in women. In this quietly passionate book, Tracy Daugherty follows Willa Cather and her friend, journalist and social reformer Elsie Shepley Sergeant, through their long, ardent battle over the purpose of art, a conflict waged from the most refined salon in Boston all the way to a ruined adobe hut in New Mexico. What superb company they are, because of their differences, and what gorgeously detailed worlds they inhabit. This is a novel with so much heart, written with such deep intelligence, that I felt wiser and more humane myself by the end of it.”-Suzanne Berne, author of \u003ci\u003eA Crime in the Neighborhood\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dogs of Littlefield\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracy Daugherty’s historical novel \u003ci\u003e148 Charles Street\u003c\/i\u003e explores the fascinating story of Willa Cather’s friendship with Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. The women shared a passion for writing, for New York, and for the desert Southwest, but their sensibilities could not have been more different: Cather, the novelist of lyrical landscapes and aesthetic refinement, and Sergeant, the muckraking journalist and literary activist. Their friendship is sorely tested when Cather fictionalizes a war that Sergeant covered as a reporter, calling into question, for both women, the uses of art and journalism, the power of imagination and witness. \u003ci\u003e148 Charles Street \u003c\/i\u003eis a testament to the bonds that endure despite disagreements and misunderstandings, and in the relentlessness of a vanishing past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e148 Charles Street \u003c\/i\u003eexplores, as only fiction can, the two writers’ interior lives, and contrasts Sergeant’s literary activism with Cather’s more purely aesthetic approach to writing.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNo TOC\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599915381016,"sku":"9781496229748","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/148-charles-street-a-novel-paperback-softback-9781496229748","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}