{"product_id":"danger-and-beauty-9780872863873","title":"Danger and Beauty","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHagedorn muses about love and sex, and probes with wry humor and sharp social satire the heart-and hearbreaks-of the immigrant experience. Here in one volume are this exciting writer''s first two books, \u003ci\u003eDangerous Music\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePet Food \u0026amp; Tropical Apparitions\u003c\/i\u003e, along with a generous selection of her work that reveals a powerful and writty continuation of her journey as a singer and searcher, woman and questioner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJessica Hagedorn is one of the best of a new generation of writers who are making American language new and who in the process are creating a new American Literature. —Russell Banks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Hagedorn] sees her native land from both near and far, with ambivalent love, the only kind of love worth writing about. —John Updike\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMs. Hagedorn is deliciously wicked . . .  —Caryn James, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJessica Hagedorn is a performance artist, poet, playwright, and formerly a commentator on NPR. Her novel, \u003ci\u003eDogeaters\u003c\/i\u003e, won an\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742345822551,"sku":"9780872863873","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780872863873.jpg?v=1758384394","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/danger-and-beauty-9780872863873","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}