{"product_id":"nosferatu-9780803293465","title":"Nosferatu","description":"From this prodigiously talented writer comes a stunningly original fictional life of the German director F. W. Murnau (1888-1931). Murnau ranks as a founding father of the cinema, not least for his legendary horror film, \u003ci\u003eNosferatu\u003c\/i\u003e. Here he is revealed as a hermetic genius who turns against himself, becoming in a sense his own vampire. What shadows Jim Shepard's Murnau--through the airfields of the Great War to Berlin in the twenties and to the virtual invention of filmmaking--is the conflict between his impossibly high ideals and his heartbreaking memories of love betrayed and love lost. From provincial Germany through Hollywood in its early days to the South Seas, \u003ci\u003eNosferatu\u003c\/i\u003e charts a life at once artistic, intellectual, and deeply human. Ron Hansen provides an introduction to this Bison Books edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJim Shepard is the author of six novels and two short-story collections, including most recently \u003ci\u003eLove and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eProject X\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at Williams College and in the Warren Wilson MFA program. Ron Hansen is the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eA Stay against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAtticus\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Book Award finalist. He teaches writing and literature at Santa Clara University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328449089810,"sku":"9780803293465","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_15c57be0-0594-4f10-b6cb-c63b77a0446d.jpg?v=1727740290","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nosferatu-9780803293465","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}