{"product_id":"true-lies-and-short-takes-9780761873266","title":"True Lies and Short Takes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese essays focus on different periods of the author’s life and hybrid identity: his Austrian childhood, his teenage years in France, his coming to the U.S. as a young adult and attending college, studying in England, and then settling in the U.S. into an academic career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Austrian Roots\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: True Lies: The Barber of Salzburg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Viktor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Bipolar: Mater Melancholia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Tennis Lessons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Scrip\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Remembering Dieta\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Adult Branchings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: What Goes Around, or My Suitcase Fiasco in Spain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: My Buddha Experience\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Loving and Losing Dogs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: My Obscure Career as an Aspiring Poet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Archetypal Dreams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Vespa Dreams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Rereading Old Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Reflections on Visiting Weimar and Buchenwald\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Suicide on the Mind: My Life Preserver\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII: Falling Leaves and What Remains\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16: Timepieces\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17: Being in Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18: Autumn Leaves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19: Time’s Relativity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20: The Inevitable Tipping Point of Mortality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 21: Reading Obituaries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 22: What Remains: Paying Rent on the Dead\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 23: “Shakespeare and No End”: My Long, Imaginative Relationship with the Stratford Bard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 24: Reading Letters from College Friends in These Pandemic Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hamilton Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037896999255,"sku":"9780761873266","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780761873266.jpg?v=1750938073","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/true-lies-and-short-takes-9780761873266","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}