{"product_id":"book-es6y","title":"A Writer Prepares","description":"Sometime in 1953, I knew with unusual certainty what I intended to do with my life. I would become a writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy the time I was twenty-five, I had published over fifty books. Most of these bore pen names, and for a time I resisted acknowledging my early pseudonymous work. Then, in one astonishing and feverish week in 1994, I recalled those early years in fifty thousand words of memoir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA publisher contracted to bring out my memoir once I'd completed it. Instead I put it on a shelf and never looked at it again. Early in 2020, I had a fresh look at \u003ci\u003eA Writer Prepares\u003c\/i\u003e. By the time I was ready to stop, I'd written about my life as a writer well into 1966, when I'd completed \u003ci\u003eThe Thief Who Couldn't Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Writer Prepares\u003c\/i\u003e, an examination of the first quarter century of one writer's life, is arguably the work of two writers. There's the middle-aged fellow who wrote about half of it at a blistering pace in 1994, and there's the octogenarian who finished the job another quarter century later. The older fellow brought less raw energy to the task, and his memory is a long way from infallible, but one can only hope he's offset these losses with a slight edge in judgment, in perspective, in maturity.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49366817538352,"sku":"BDes6y","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49366817571120,"sku":"ZEes6y","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49366817669424,"sku":"ZMes6y","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/es6y-Square-cover.jpg?v=1780041947","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-es6y","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}