{"product_id":"samuel-taylors-hollywood-adventure-paperback","title":"Samuel Taylor's Hollywood Adventure - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoe Amato\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI can think of no other writer who can better express the ine able sense of being born into the working poor before moving through di erent genres of living--hired factory hand, engineer, professor, poet, then back to hired academic hand--as he searches for a sense of the real through genres of writing--memoir, ction, poetry, criticism. \u003cem\u003eSamuel Taylor's Hollywood Adventure\u003c\/em\u003e is as engrossing as any written lived experience, only more so: a meditation on what it is not to be a Hollywood celebrity, war hero, or anyone of note, but a human trying to make it, and trying to make sense of \"it\" as a writer who can look back and see how much of our lives are composed by the constraints of storytelling we and our societies create. \u003cem\u003eSamuel Taylor's Hollywood Adventure\u003c\/em\u003e begins with poetics, but ends as philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--STEVE TOMASULA, author of \u003cem\u003eVAS: An Opera in Flatland\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOnce Human: Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 374\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 08, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751919386912,"sku":"9781599541181","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3c309bff81ed7cf49df144faf9357406.webp?v=1779983171","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/samuel-taylors-hollywood-adventure-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}