{"product_id":"ever-the-winds-of-chance-poems-paperback-softback-9780252068485","title":"Ever the Winds of Chance; POEMS (Paperback \/ softback) 9780252068485","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEver the Winds of Chance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePOEMS\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarl Sandburg (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252068485\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 December 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.286 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eNow published for the first time, \u003ci\u003eEver the Winds of Chance\u003c\/i\u003e is Sandburg's evocative sequel to \u003ci\u003eAlways the Young Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e (1953), \"the best autobiography ever written by an American\" (Robert E. Sherwood, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). Though left unfinished at his death, the sequel provides a wry, nostalgic chronicle of Sandburg's college years and early adulthood, a restless decade for a young man still in quest of his calling.\u003cbr\u003e Ever the Winds of Chance opens in 1898 when the twenty-year-old Sandburg, recently returned from the Spanish-American war, enrolls at Lombard College in his native Galesburg, Illinois. Sandburg writes about his job at the fire station; his teachers, inspired or otherwise; his classmates and their camaraderie; his observations on great literary works and writers; and his own writings for the school newspaper, literary review, and yearbook and for the \u003ci\u003eGalesburg Mail.\u003c\/i\u003e But he also includes much about life between school years and after college, recounting his various brief careers as a fireman, salesman of stereoscopic views, advertising copywriter, vagabond, \"jailbird,\" and budding poet and socialist. Together these reminiscences provide an intimate look at the formative years of a preeminent figure in American letters.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523431395608,"sku":"9780252068485","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ever-the-winds-of-chance-poems-paperback-softback-9780252068485","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}