{"product_id":"and-our-faces-my-heart-brief-as-photos-isbn-9798896230571","title":"And our faces, my heart, brief as photos","description":"\u003cb\u003eA stunning, unclassifiable work by one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers and writers, this book is an inspiring amalgam of letters, poetry, and profound musings on everything from Caravaggio to the nature of time itself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless ...In our brief mortal lives, we are grinders of these lenses'. When John Berger wrote this apparently unclassifiable book, it was to become a sensation, translated into nine languages and indelible from the minds of those who read it. This stunning work is a shoebox filled with delicate love letters containing poetry and thoughts on mortality, art, love, and absence, capturing moments in time that hover above Berger's surprising landscapes. From his lyrical description of the works of Caravaggio and profound explorations of death and immigration to the sight of some lilac at dusk in the mountains, this is a beautiful and most intimate response to the world around us.\"Modest, uncontentious reflections on things personal and epochal—time and timelessness, love, home—by the noted Marxist critic of art and society....Explorations of Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Caravaggio overlap with self-inscription.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There is great stillness in Berger’s prose. But after a few pages, his statements start to sing and go on singing.” — \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An elegant fusion of philosophy, memoir, and poetry.” — Jacob Brogan, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[John Berger] radically altered and enlarged my ideas of what a book could be.” — Geoff Dyer, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[John Berger is] a great prose poet of homesickness, of the yearning to belong. Surging from the immediate and erotic to the historical and social, his vision is as grand as it is drastic” — Peter Schjeldahl, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003eJohn Berger (1926 - 2017) was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels and stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eA Painter of Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1958, and since then his books have included \u003ci\u003eWays of Seeing\u003c\/i\u003e, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, and the novel \u003ci\u003eG.,\u003c\/i\u003e which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently and moved to a small village in the French Alps.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48232927297765,"sku":"NP9798896230571","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9798896230571.jpg?v=1767721552","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/and-our-faces-my-heart-brief-as-photos-isbn-9798896230571","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}