{"product_id":"laura-9780671567767","title":"Laura","description":"In a captivating departure, Larry Watson, \"a writer whose work is worthy of prizes\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), unveils a portrait of faith, obsession, and enduring love -- and a work of greater tenderness than anything he has yet written. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Love captures Paul Finley, in, of all places, his own bedroom -- literally waking him from his dreams. The night he discovers Laura Pettit standing at his windowsill, Paul is eleven years old, a boy naturally inclined toward seriousness, precociously adept at the art of watching the world without being watched. Laura is twenty-two, a fiercely passionate and independent poet already experiencing the first flickers of fame, a beautiful woman on the brink of seducing Paul's father. No matter; Paul is smitten. When she leaves him to rejoin the grown-ups' party downstairs, Laura issues Paul a wholly impossible command, one that will haunt and consume both of them for the rest of their lives: \"Forget me.\" \u003cbr\u003e Laying bare the inner life of one man during the course of nearly four decades, Larry Watson delivers a riveting treatise on the excruciating power of love -- and two of the most remarkable characters in recent American literature. Infused with breathtaking pathos and delicate grace, \u003ci\u003eLaura\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary triumph of the novelist's art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLarry Watson was born in Rugby, North Dakota and raised in Bismarck. He is the recipient of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, a National Endowment of the Arts award, and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Regional Book Award. Watson teachers English at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Points.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844862611730,"sku":"9780671567767","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6277350e-42fc-4258-b5eb-2fcb47d4ce68.jpg?v=1737335131","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/laura-9780671567767","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}