{"product_id":"misgivings-my-mother-my-father-myself-book-ck-williams-9780374199845","title":"Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Voelcker career achievement award in poetry \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003eis a full of doubt, both philosophical and personal, but as a work of art it is sure and true. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliams'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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50350036582673,"sku":"CIN0374199841G","price":6.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53119373377809,"sku":"CIN0374199841VG","price":6.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374199841.jpg?v=1750941983","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/misgivings-my-mother-my-father-myself-book-ck-williams-9780374199845","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}