{"product_id":"only-love-can-break-your-heart-isbn-9781582435039","title":"Only Love Can Break Your Heart","description":"In \u003ci\u003eOnly Love Can Break Your Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, David Samuels writes with a reportorial acumen and stylistic flair that recall the pioneering New Journalism of Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, and Joan Didion. Combining elegant, nuanced personal essays with far–out reporting—on the lives of radicals in the Pacific Northwest, anti–abortion zealots, demolition experts, suburban hip–hop stars, and more—Samuels shows us an American landscape whose unsettling mix of profound dislocations and blue–sky optimism is both instantly recognizable and thrillingly new.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese essays display his unusual sensitivity to both the tragic and comic dissonances that bubble up from the gap between the American promise of endless nirvana and the lives of salesman, dreamers, aging baseball legends, crackpots, atomic test site workers, and dog track bettors who struggle to live out their dreams one day at a time.\"An intelligence and unsparing lucidity reminiscent of Joan Didion's work circa \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/i\u003e.\" —\u003ci\u003eNew York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"He's a savant when it comes to scene reporting and has a nearly autistic command of minor details and facts. Armed with minutiae, he achieves the glorious breadth and details of a mural painter.\" —\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The protraits that emerge are exhaustive and often severe, but there is something delicate in Samuel's method. In his stories the random flow of events takes on real meaning, allowing us to see what's hidden in plain view and to hear what's being said.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Samuels is heir to an American tradition, and writing this terrific needs a place to go.\" —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Samuels\u003c\/b\u003e, a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and a longtime contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, is the author of \u003ci\u003eOnly Love Can Break Your Heart\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Runner\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the literary editor of \u003ci\u003eTablet Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44864076185829,"sku":"NP9781582435039","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781582435039.jpg?v=1767734217","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/only-love-can-break-your-heart-isbn-9781582435039","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}