{"product_id":"second-star-and-other-reasons-for-lingering-9781953861542","title":"Second Star: And Other Reasons for Lingering","description":"\u003cb\u003eA #1 bestseller in France, \u003ci\u003eSecond Star \u003c\/i\u003eis an inspiring series of lyrical meditations on life's smallest moments, from peeling a clementine, drinking a cold mojito, to washing your windows\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA still life in motion, \u003ci\u003eSecond Star\u003c\/i\u003e \"consumes the present\" with a patient curiosity, asking us to \"put off tomorrow\" and join Philippe Delerm in tasting, touching, listening, and noticing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether biting into a bitter turnip or savoring a summer evening in June, Philip Delerm's literary snapshots transport us to simple, often overlooked sensations and pleasures, and, pausing, expand a moment or emotion outwards in concentric circles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVividly translated by Jody Gladding, these evocative vignettes invite us to linger, to \"savor the few moments of silence\"--as if each bite of a ripe watermelon, each exhaled breath on a bitterly cold day, each cloudy evening on the beach, were our last.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilippe Delerm\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1950 in a suburb of Paris. A retired schoolteacher, Delerm writes fiction, essays, and children's books. His collection of essays \u003ci\u003eLa Première gorgée de bière et autres plaisirs minuscules\u003c\/i\u003e sold more than one million copies in France and became a #1 bestseller. It was translated into English as \u003ci\u003eThe Small Pleasures of Life\u003c\/i\u003e (also known as \u003ci\u003eWe Could Almost Eat Outside: An appreciation of life's small pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e) translated by Sarah Hamp. He has published eleven books, including \u003ci\u003eAUTUMN\u003c\/i\u003e which won the Prix Alain-Fournier in 1990. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJody Gladding\u003c\/b\u003e has translated the works of Elizabeth Deshays, Hervé This, and Jean Giono, among others. She has written several books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003ethe spiders my arms\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). Gladding has been honored with a Whiting Writers' Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Centre National du Livre de France Translation grant and a French-American Foundation Translation Award, along with a MacDowell Colony fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, and a residency at The Frost Place.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Archipelago Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525844635922,"sku":"9781953861542","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_105141d4-4935-445b-ab75-5adabdc2afe9.jpg?v=1731244360","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/second-star-and-other-reasons-for-lingering-9781953861542","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}