{"product_id":"be-with-me-always-essays-9781496205049","title":"Be with Me Always: Essays","description":"\"Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!\" Thus does Heathcliff beg his dead Cathy in \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e. He wants to be haunted--he insists on it. Randon Billings Noble does too. Instead of exorcising the ghosts of her past, she hopes for their cold hands to knock at the window and to linger. \u003ci\u003eBe with Me Always\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of essays that explore hauntedness by considering how the ghosts of our pasts cling to us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a way, all good essays are about the things that haunt us until we have somehow embraced or understood them. Here, Noble considers the ways she has been haunted--by a near-death experience, the gaze of a nude model, thoughts of widowhood, Anne Boleyn's violent death, a book she can't stop reading, a past lover who shadows her thoughts--in essays both pleasant and bitter, traditional and lyrical, and persistently evocative and unforgettable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRandon Billings Noble \u003c\/b\u003eis an essayist. Her work has been published in the Modern Love column of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFourth Genre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books, Creative Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Her essay \"The Heart as a Torn Muscle,\" originally published in \u003ci\u003eBrevity\u003c\/i\u003e, was listed as a Notable Essay in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays 2016.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50717132816658,"sku":"9781496205049","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_71620145-453e-4394-a89b-a688ac761b7f.jpg?v=1734610319","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/be-with-me-always-essays-9781496205049","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}