{"product_id":"books-misgivings-by-c-k-williams","title":"Misgivings","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Voelcker career achievement award in poetry\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMisgivings\u003c\/i\u003e is C. K. William's searing recollection of his family's extreme dynamics and of his parents' deaths after years of struggle, bitterness, inner conflict, and, finally, love. Like Kafka's self-revealing \u003ci\u003eLetter to His Father\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMisgivings\u003c\/i\u003e is a full of doubt, both philosophical and personal, but as a work of art it is sure and true.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Williams's father was an \"ordinary businessman\"--angry, demanding, addicted to the tension he created with the people he loved; a man who could recite the Greek myths to his son yet vowed never to apologize to anybody. Wiiiams's mother was a housewife, a woman with a great capacity for pleasure, who was stoical about the family's dire early poverty yet remained affected by it even when they became well-off. Together, these two formed what Williams calls the \"conspiracy that made me who I am.\" His account of their life together and of their deaths--his father's in a final abandonment of the will to live, his mother's with calm resignation--is a literary form of the reconciliation the family achieved at the end of his parents' lives, composed as a series of short takes, a double helix of experience and recollection.\u003c\/p\u003e donment of the will to live, his mother's with calm resignation--is a literary form of the reconciliation the family achieved at the end of his parents' lives, composed as a series of short takes, a double helix of experience and recollection.donment of the will to live, his mother's with calm resignation--is a literary form of the reconciliation the family achieved at the end of his parents' lives, composed as a series of short takes, a double helix of experience and recollection.donment of the will to live, his mother's with calm resignation--is a literary form of the reconciliation the family achieved at the end of his parents' lives, composed as a series of short takes, a double helix of experience and recollection.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53673186918673,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780374527280.jpg?v=1781524020","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-misgivings-by-c-k-williams","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}