{"product_id":"here-and-now-letters-2008-2011-9780143124917","title":"Here and Now: Letters 2008-2011","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"[A] civilized discourse between two cultivated and sophisticated men. . . . It's a pleasure to be in their company.\"--Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An extended meditation on the processes of friendship, [\u003ci\u003eHere and Now\u003c\/i\u003e] has something substantive to offer.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter a meeting at an Australian literary festival brought them together in 2008, novelists Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee began exchanging letters on a regular basis with the hope they might \"strike sparks off each other.\" \u003ci\u003eHere and Now \u003c\/i\u003eis the result: a three-year epistolary dialogue that touches on nearly every subject from sports to fatherhood, literature to film, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, death, marriage, friendship, and love. Their high-spirited and luminous correspondence offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of these two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and reveal their delight in each other's friendship on every page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Auster\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Follies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSunset Park\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWinter Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other critically acclaimed books. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. M. Coetzee \u003c\/b\u003eis the first author to be awarded the Booker Prize twice. The author of \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLife \u0026amp; Times of Michael K\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other works, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. He lives in Adelaide, Australia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630305448210,"sku":"9780143124917","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d1b46ca3-fc88-45f7-b711-086a8b1a6bc1.jpg?v=1732749170","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/here-and-now-letters-2008-2011-9780143124917","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}