{"product_id":"the-pleasure-of-their-company-isbn-9780807072233","title":"The Pleasure of Their Company","description":"Using the occasion of her eightieth-birthday party to reflect on the past, Doris Grumbach delivers an enchanting memoir of the writers, friends, and loves who have accompanied her in mind and body through an extraordinary life of letters.Buoyant. . . . The reader doesn't want this party to be over. --Leslie Chess Feller, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Triumphant. . . . [Grumbach] is tireless in her passion for ideas.\" --Steven Harvey, \u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Grumbach] lives simultaneously in the past with departed friends, in the present with daily chores, in her imagination with well-known and remembered books, and she is completely alive in each sphere.\" --Barbara Fisher, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Grumbach writes effortlessly and beautifully. She has led a life passionately devoted to books and writing, and as she approaches 80 the passion is still there.\" --David Guy, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003eDoris Grumbach, author of many books including \u003ci\u003eFifty Days of Solitude, Life in a Day\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Presence of Absence\u003c\/i\u003e, has been literary editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, a nonfiction columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and a book reviewer for National Public Radio. She lives in Maine.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305118585061,"sku":"NP9780807072233","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807072233.jpg?v=1767740979","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-pleasure-of-their-company-isbn-9780807072233","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}