{"product_id":"curriculum-vitae-a-journey-to-montauk-elsewhere-and-back-9781949540222","title":"Curriculum Vitae: A Journey to Montauk, Elsewhere, and Back","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Gregory de la Haba's memoir is in the tradition of \u003cem\u003ePortrait of the Artist as a Young Man\u003c\/em\u003e. In a narrative that is engaging, insightful and precise-much like the drawings and sketches by de la Haba that adorn the book-he tells a story of artistic enlightenment, first through youthful attempts to enhance \"the work\" through life experience, and then, finding his muse within the people and places that matter most. Read this book to discover what it takes to be an artist, a friend, a husband-a man. Curriculum Vitae is a keeper.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -T.J. English, \u003cem\u003e New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e best-selling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Westies and Havana Nocturne\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eCurriculum Vitae\u003c\/em\u003e is a wild book, as eccentric and electric as the talented artist that wrote it. Fantastic.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -James McBride, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Color of Water\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e The Good Lord Bird\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I don't recall the last book I read continually, maybe because they've all been dry nonfiction, as opposed to what Gregory de la Haba has done with\u003cem\u003e Curriculum Vitae\u003c\/em\u003e. Aside from What Happens Next in the life of a memoirist (wanting to know), I have to be surprised, at least once a page or so, by the language, meaning, I have to be thinking 'I didn't see THAT coming...' then this follows: 'but somehow it's just right-perfect' in nuance. This way each vignette becomes a story with an ending and ENDINGS ARE EVERYTHING. No ending, no story. Period. Apart from being an incredible artist, Mr. de la Haba is a natural writer and storyteller. Anyway, a great service has been done, but only for those who love life... no wait, not necessarily that.... but a service to those who have an intense INTEREST in it... it.... it's doings, the cause and effect of it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Allan Weisbecker, author of\u003cem\u003e Cosmic Banditos\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e In Search of Captain Zero \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"C\u0026r Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50521531678994,"sku":"9781949540222","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fce89093-fecb-4516-a015-f1a559294ed9.jpg?v=1731106604","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/curriculum-vitae-a-journey-to-montauk-elsewhere-and-back-9781949540222","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}