{"product_id":"walls-essays-1985-1990-9780268207151","title":"Walls: Essays 1985-1990","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalls: Essays, 1985-1990\u003c\/i\u003e, Kenneth McClane's first book of autobiographical essays (originally published in 1991), is closely related to his second collection, \u003ci\u003eColor\u003c\/i\u003e, published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2009. Walls is a powerful and deeply moving meditation on relationships. It begins with an essay on the death of McClane's brother, Paul, which changed everything. Time, my work, everything found a new calculus. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis brother's life and death are present in some way in all the essays that follow A Death in the Family, as McClane tells us about giving a poetry reading in a maximum-security prison; his experience of being one of the first two African American students to attend America's oldest private school; teaching creative writing; his sister, Adrienne; a divestment protest at Cornell; and his encounters with James Baldwin. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcClane has written a new preface to this paperback edition of Walls, in which he reminds us that we are inevitably interconnected: we are each other's witness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e McClane, Kenneth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268207151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d","brand":"Kenneth McClane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39882096869451,"sku":"9780268207151","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_7df998e7-615c-421e-9dc9-be329aef20da.jpg?v=1666009605","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/walls-essays-1985-1990-9780268207151","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}