{"product_id":"2940177998534","title":"In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eIn 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as “an oracle among authors.” Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of “bad language” and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women's truth; and she proposes a choral fusion of feminine talent as she brilliantly discourses on the work of Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Ingeborg Bachmann, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eHere is a subtle yet candid book by “one of the great novelists of our time” about adventures in literature, both in and out of the margins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46295257907441,"sku":"2940177998534","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940177998534_p0.jpg?v=1765398870","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940177998534","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}