{"product_id":"dark-reflections-book-samuel-delany-9780486809090","title":"Dark Reflections","description":"Samuel R. Delany is not only one of the most profound and courageous writers at work today, he is a writer of seemingly limitless range. -- Michael Cunningham, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hours\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eAmong the most detailed, thoughtful, and heartbreaking portrayals of a writer's life. --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThis Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of Arnold Hawley, a homosexual African-American poet. Albert's poetry ultimately meets with modest acclaim but only after decades of striving. Romance and friendship are likewise elusive, despite an impulsive marriage to a stranger. His outsider status--black, gay, and a poet--compounds his struggles to create art, to find a readership, and to lead a meaningful existence.\u003cbr\u003eBeautifully written in reverse chronological order, the story opens with Albert's lonely old age and ventures back in time to his arrival in New York City of the 1950s. A meditation on isolation and sexual repression, \u003ci\u003eDark Reflections\u003c\/i\u003e also offers an acerbic look at the literary world and the frustrations intrinsic to artistic life.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51423071174929,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423072846097,"sku":"CIN0486809099VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694675362065,"sku":"CIN0486809099G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0486809099.jpg?v=1786099337","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/dark-reflections-book-samuel-delany-9780486809090","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}