{"product_id":"still-pictures-9781250872258","title":"Still Pictures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSuperb . . . [The] final, splendid, most personal work of [Janet Malcolm's] long career. Charles Finch, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e New York Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003epoked and prodded at reportorial and biographical convention, gesturing toward the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. In \u003ci\u003eStill Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e, she turns her gimlet eye on her own lifea task demanding a writer just as peerlessly skillful as she was widely known to be.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e, then, is not the story of a life but an event on its own terms, an encounter with identity and family photographs as poignant and original as anything since Roland Barthes's \u003ci\u003eCamera Lucida\u003c\/i\u003e. Malcolm looks beyond the content of the image and the easy seductions of self-recognition, constructing a memoir from memories that pose questions of their own. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e begi\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407330353495,"sku":"9781250872258","price":15.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781250872258.jpg?v=1730499015","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/still-pictures-9781250872258","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}