{"product_id":"the-factory-of-facts-isbn-9780679746508","title":"The Factory of Facts","description":"The acclaimed author of Low Life reinvents the memoir in a cunning, lyrical book that is at once a personal history and a meditation on the construction of identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Belgium but raised in New Jersey, Lucy Sante transformed herself from a pious, timid Belgian child into a boisterous American adolescent, who eschewed French while fantasizing about the pop star Françoise Hardy. To show how this transformation came about--and why it remained incomplete--\u003ci\u003eThe Factory of Facts\u003c\/i\u003e  combines family anecdote and ancestral legend; detailed forays into Belgian history, language, and religion; and deft synopses of the American character.Sante has a historian's fiendish taste for information. . . a journalist's wit, resourcefulness and love of idiosyncracy.\"               --The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Remarkable. . . . Sante makes a reader want to know him.\"  --The Boston GlobeLucy Sante is the author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York and Evidence. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, a book critic for New York magazine, and a senior contributor to Slate. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44865795621093,"sku":"NP9780679746508","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679746508.jpg?v=1767739268","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-factory-of-facts-isbn-9780679746508","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}