{"product_id":"the-tao-of-humiliation-paperback","title":"The Tao of Humiliation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLee Upton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChilling, funny, devastating: Upton's characters backtrack into the past, then make their way forward with humiliation as their guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Readers will want to live inside this wonderful book - not just in its parties and wrecked gatherings and sophisticated conversations but in the sentences themselves, which are genuine shelters: long, erudite, warmhearted and capable, brimming with scholarship and knowledge. In its own way, each sentence is a container filled with something revelatory.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, Sunday Shortlist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLee Upton is the author of twelve other books, including the novella \u003ci\u003eThe Guide to the Flying Island\u003c\/i\u003e, and a collection of essays about writing, \u003ci\u003eSwallowing the Sea: On Writing \u0026amp; Ambition Boredom Purity \u0026amp; Secrecy\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poetry has appeared in editions of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and has been included in numerous anthologies as well as in \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Harvard Review, New England Review, Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003e and other magazines. More than three dozen of her short stories have been published, appearing in such journals as \u003ci\u003eAntioch Review, Epoch, Short Fiction (England), Redivider, Northwest Review, Shenandoah, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAscent\u003c\/i\u003e. She has published more than fifty articles and essays about literature. Her awards include: the Lyric Poetry Award and The Writer\/Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America; the Pushcart Prize; the National Poetry Series Award; the Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series Award; the BOA Short Fiction Prize; and the Mary Louise VanArtsdalen Prize for Scholarship, the Marquis Teaching Award, and the Jones Faculty Lecture Award at Lafayette College, where she is the Writer-in-Residence and a professor of Englis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760121217312,"sku":"9781938160325","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6a7078d1ae957de2edf06e49f203140f.webp?v=1780172139","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-tao-of-humiliation-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}