{"product_id":"only-love-can-break-your-heart-paperback-2","title":"Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Samuels\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOnly Love Can Break Your Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, David Samuels writes with a reportorial acumen and stylistic flair that recall the pioneering New Journalism of Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, and Joan Didion. Combining elegant, nuanced personal essays with far-out reporting--on the lives of radicals in the Pacific Northwest, anti-abortion zealots, demolition experts, suburban hip-hop stars, and more--Samuels shows us an American landscape whose unsettling mix of profound dislocations and blue-sky optimism is both instantly recognizable and thrillingly new. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese essays display his unusual sensitivity to both the tragic and comic dissonances that bubble up from the gap between the American promise of endless nirvana and the lives of salesman, dreamers, aging baseball legends, crackpots, atomic test site workers, and dog track bettors who struggle to live out their dreams one day at a time.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Samuels\u003c\/b\u003e, a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and a longtime contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, is the author of \u003ci\u003eOnly Love Can Break Your Heart\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Runner\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the literary editor of \u003ci\u003eTablet Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.1 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 26, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52702240604467,"sku":"9781582435039","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/oJ9qpOZ5Mf9781582435039.webp?v=1763297788","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/only-love-can-break-your-heart-paperback-2","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}