{"title":"Joel Lieber","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"deep-blue-rare-book-joel-lieber-1689070000mhp","title":"Deep Blue","description":"1968. First Dell Printing. 396 pages. Paperback book with illustrated cover. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pulling to covers. Binding remains firm. Paper covers have m","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50082177024273,"sku":"1689070000MHP","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1689070000MHP_1.jpg?v=1722911203"},{"product_id":"two-way-traffic-book-joel-lieber-9798218223137","title":"Two-Way Traffic","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst-ever paperback edition of Joel Lieber's posthumously-published 1972 semi-autobiographical novel \u003cem\u003eTwo-Way Traffic\u003c\/em\u003e. Set in the late 1960s and early 1970s and presented as a series of journal extracts, it is the harrowing portrayal of a young, successful writer's efforts to reassemble a life shattered by marital problems, a bitter custody battle, depression, anxiety, and a suicide attempt. The novel is a barely fictionalized account of the author's last two years and is a frank, often heartbreaking work, but not without brilliant flashes of humor, genuine warmth, and optimism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the dust jacket of the 1972 edition: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJessie Jacobi had built a successful life as a writer: well-received books, attractive wife, two children. Then it all began to crumble. His marriage collapsed. His writing lost its unity and direction. A decision, any decision, became all but impossible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the second year of my third decade, someone else has come to live inside me, and I hate that visitor, he writes in one of the journals that make up this novel. Beginning with Jesse's collapse, the journals record his often indecisive struggle with that unwelcome visitor-through a suicide attempt and the subsequent search for new friends, new beliefs, and a new understanding of himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoel Lieber has written a frank and penetrating novel, an intensely personal chronicle of one man's journey into the depths of his own mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53641355362577,"sku":"NLS9798218223137","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798218223137.jpg?v=1781018783"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-joel-lieber.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}