{"product_id":"every-wrong-direction-an-emigres-memoir-hardcover","title":"Every Wrong Direction: An Emigré's Memoir - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDan Burt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvery Wrong Direction\u003c\/i\u003e recreates and dissects the bitter education of Dan Burt, an American émigré who never found a home in America. It begins in the row homes of Jewish immigrants and working-class Italians on the mean streets of 1950s South Philadelphia. \u003ci\u003eEvery Wrong Direction\u003c\/i\u003e follows the author from the rough, working-class childhood that groomed him to be a butcher or charter boat captain, through America, Britain and Saudi Arabia as student, lawyer, spy, culture warrior, and expatriate, ending with a photo of his college rooms at St John's College, Cambridge. Between this beginning and end, through a Philadelphia commuter college, to Cambridge, then Yale Law School, across the working to upper classes, three countries, and seven cities over 43 years, it maps his pursuit of, realization, disillusionment with and abandonment of America and the American Dream. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Dan Burt's previous memoir, \u003ci\u003eYou Think It Strange\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Burt's early life was indeed a triumph of wit and will. He managed to escape a world filled with violence and a culture that valued street smarts over book smarts, all the while knowing that just about everyone around him thought little of his prospects. That he made it out at all is extraordinary. That he became a successful lawyer and writer is virtually unimaginable.\" --\u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Dan Burt is a fine poet, and this memoir has all the sensitivity and vigilance you might expect from a writer with such a background. But his prose also has a robustness and documentary power that continually startles and engages. As it combines these things, You Think It Strange catches the strangeness of the world and makes it familiar.\" \u003cbr\u003e --Sir Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, 1999-2009 \u003cbr\u003e \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDan Burt (danburtpoetry.com) is a prolific author whose work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times, The Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e The New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, among numerous other publications, newspapers, periodicals, and anthologies. He is also the author of four books of poetry and prose and a brief childhood memoir, \u003ci\u003eYou Think It Strange\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 358\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.15 x 9.26 x 6.29 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765948678432,"sku":"9781978830141","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/faf7ce0dc89659717c2b765b599fafc8.webp?v=1780283336","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/every-wrong-direction-an-emigres-memoir-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}