{"product_id":"9780671567767","title":"Laura","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eLaura\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Larry Watson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a captivating departure, Larry Watson, \"a writer whose work is worthy of prizes\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), unveils a portrait of faith, obsession, and enduring love -- and a work of greater tenderness than anything he has yet written. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Love captures Paul Finley, in, of all places, his own bedroom -- literally waking him from his dreams. The night he discovers Laura Pettit standing at his windowsill, Paul is eleven years old, a boy naturally inclined toward seriousness, precociously adept at the art of watching the world without being watched. Laura is twenty-two, a fiercely passionate and independent poet already experiencing the first flickers of fame, a beautiful woman on the brink of seducing Paul's father. No matter; Paul is smitten. When she leaves him to rejoin the grown-ups' party downstairs, Laura issues Paul a wholly impossible command, one that will haunt and consume both of them for the rest of their lives: \"Forget me.\" \u003cbr\u003e Laying bare the inner life of one man during the course of nearly four decades, Larry Watson delivers a riveting treatise on the excruciating power of love -- and two of the most remarkable characters in recent American literature. Infused with breathtaking pathos and delicate grace, \u003ci\u003eLaura\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary triumph of the novelist's art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLaura\u003c\/i\u003e is the kind of novel that, once started, is hard to put down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Powerful and unsettling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e Immediately drops the reader into the world of obsession, with all its uncertainties, complications, and longing....A deft double biography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook\u003c\/i\u003e A lyrical portrait of a family unraveled and the manner in which a powerful encounter can resonate through an individual's life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e A finely wrought...tale of enduring passion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Capital Times\u003c\/i\u003e (Madison, WI) Watson brilliantly and compassionately shows how a relationship between two complex people can change (and not change) over time....He tenderly and honestly depicts the relationship between a father who denied himself nothing and a son who denied himself everything. And how both paid the price.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitiution\u003c\/i\u003e An entertaining cognition on how far obsession can twist a person.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRegister-Pajaronian\u003c\/i\u003e (Santa-Cruz, CA) Larry Watson has captured the unforgettable and excruciating power of love gone awry in \u003ci\u003eLaura.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780671567767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Washington Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40589538558158,"sku":"9780671567767","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_f108935f-38da-455f-8958-fdbc4789cd4c.jpg?v=1637721580","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780671567767","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}