{"product_id":"books-dark-reflections-by-samuel-r-delany","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":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53507486089489,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780786719471.jpg?v=1778128135","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-dark-reflections-by-samuel-r-delany","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}