{"product_id":"here-we-are-9780143133452","title":"Here We Are","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Jewish Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA deeply felt, beautifully crafted meditation on friendship and loss in the vein of \u003ci\u003eA Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e, and a touching portrait of Philip Roth from his closest friend.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI had a baseball question on the tip of my tongue: What was the name of the natural, the player shot by a stalker in a Chicago hotel room? He gave me an amused look that darkened in-to puzzlement, then fear. Then he pitched forward into the soup, unconscious. When I entered the examining room twenty minutes after our arrival at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, Philip said, No more books. Thus he announced his retirement.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins Benjamin Taylor''s \u003ci\u003eHere We Are\u003c\/i\u003e, the unvarnished portrait of his best friend and one of America''s greatest writers. Needless to say, Philip Roth''s place in the canon is secure, but what is less clear is what the man himself was like. In\u003ci\u003e Here We Are\u003c\/i\u003e, Benjamin Taylor''s b","brand":"Penguin Putnam Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524501709143,"sku":"9780143133452","price":14.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780143133452.jpg?v=1731857016","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/here-we-are-9780143133452","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}