{"product_id":"searching-for-amylu-danzer-9781911379072","title":"Searching for Amylu Danzer","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the afternoon of February 24th, 1965, Amylu Danzer, a twenty-year-old art student who'd been visiting Jones Beach on Long Island, went missing. A month later, her body was swept ashore some sixteen miles away, at Far Rockaway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this tender, courageous, artfully structured and engagingly written memoir, the writer and photographer John Rosenthal looks back on his youthful friendship with Amylu, and, drawing on multiple sources, seeks to answer some of the questions which have haunted him ever since he first learned of her death, now half a century distant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRosenthal, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - John Rosenthal was born in New York City in 1942. He received his BA from Wake Forest College in 1964, and an MA in English Literature from Columbia University in 1966. He taught English at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill until 1971 when he left teaching to become an essayist and a photographer. His work has been widely exhibited in the United States, including exhibitions at The National Humanities Center, The National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C., and Boston's Panopticon Gallery. His articles have appeared in many journals and magazines, amongst them \u003cem\u003eThe Sun Magazine, Five Points\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Huffington Post.\u003c\/em\u003e In 1998 a collection of Mr. Rosenthal's photographs, \u003cem\u003eRegarding Manhattan, \u003c\/em\u003e was published by Safe Harbor Books, and in 2015 Safe Harbor published his 2007 collection of New Orleans photographs, AFTER: The Silence of the Lower 9th Ward. In the 1990s, Mr. Rosenthal was a regular commentator on NPR's \u003cem\u003eAll Things Considered.\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Waywiser Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50863548399890,"sku":"9781911379072","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e98a08e9-484e-491d-82da-fdbecddf3632.jpg?v=1737640591","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/searching-for-amylu-danzer-9781911379072","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}