{"product_id":"vermeer-in-bosnia-selected-writings-9780679777403","title":"Vermeer in Bosnia: Selected Writings","description":"There are writers who specialize in the strange and others whose genius is to find the strangeness in the familiar, the unexpected meanings in stories we thought we knew. Of that second category, Lawrence Weschler is the master. Witness the pieces in this splendidly disorienting collection, spanning twenty years of his career and the full range of his concerns-which is to say, practically everything. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnly Lawrence Weschler could reveal the connections between the twentieth century's Yugoslav wars and the equally violent Holland in which Vermeer created his luminously serene paintings. In his profile of Roman Polanski, Weschler traces the filmmaker's symbolic negotiations with his nightmarish childhood during the Holocaust\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Here, too, are meditations on artists Ed Kienholz and David Hockney, on the author's grandfather and daughter, and on the light and earthquakes of his native Los Angeles. Haunting, elegant, and intoxicating, \u003cb\u003eVermeer in Bosnia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eawakens awe and wonder at the world around us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLawrence Weschler is the author of more than ten books, including \u003cb\u003eMr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was shortlisted for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003efor more than twenty years and is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's.\u003c\/i\u003e Since 2001 he has been the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. He lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife and daughter.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705004261650,"sku":"9780679777403","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b9170312-8d64-43d3-966c-3deace0b5450.jpg?v=1762336243","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/vermeer-in-bosnia-selected-writings-9780679777403","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}