{"product_id":"crabcakes-a-memoir-9780684847962","title":"Crabcakes: A Memoir","description":"With the same grace and lyrical precision that distinguish his vibrant short stories, James McPherson surveys the emotional upheaval of his last twenty-one years. From Baltimore, Maryland, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Iowa and Japan, \u003ci\u003eCrabcakes\u003c\/i\u003e witnesses McPherson's confrontation with the past, and his struggle to make sense of it and to bind it, peacefully, to the present. His elliptical search for meaning -- and his ultimate understanding of what makes us human -- finds in \u003ci\u003eCrabcakes\u003c\/i\u003e a powerful and enduring voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Alan McPherson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eHue and Cry, Railroad, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eElbow Room, \u003c\/i\u003e for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978. His essays and short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals -- including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Newsday, Plough-shares, The Iowa Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDouble-Take\u003c\/i\u003e -- and anthologies such as volumes of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eO. Henry Prize Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e McPherson has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Prize Fellows Award. He is currently a professor of English at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Iowa C\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Free Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327056220434,"sku":"9780684847962","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f11e8c88-35bf-4ff9-8d65-d1f12b694973.jpg?v=1727709045","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/crabcakes-a-memoir-9780684847962","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}