{"product_id":"beyond-this-harbor","title":"Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart","description":"\u003cb\u003eA memoir of an extraordinary life—poet, international human rights activist, founding member of Amnesty International USA, journalist, hostess, famous beauty, foreign policy advisor; friend to politicians, movie stars, the legendary; discoverer of Philip Roth, longtime wife of Bill Styron and together, America’s literary golden couple at home and abroad\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“[Rose Styron] has lived a life in interesting times, among legendary characters, a life well worth telling—and reading about.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn intimate portrait of a celebrated magic life and the famous and infamous who dropped in, summered, traveled with, played with, and the decades of friendship with everyone from Truman Capote and Robert Penn Warren to the Kennedys, the Bernsteins, Alexander Calder, John Hersey, and Lillian Hellman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere as well are the years of dedication and risk, traveling the world, from Pinochet’s Chile to El Salvador, Belfast, and Sarajevo, as Rose Styron, in search of those hiding from dictators and autocrats, bore witness to atrocities and human rights violations . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStyron writes of her childhood, born into a German Jewish, assimilated Baltimore family; a rebel from the start, studying poetry at Wellesley, Harvard, Johns Hopkins; traveling to Rome and her (second) meeting with Bill (the first time, “I can’t remember even shaking hands. I wasn’t thinking about him at all.”); their eventual marriage, and their more than fifty years together—in bucolic Roxbury, Connecticut, and on Martha's Vineyard. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe writes of Bill's writing and of retyping his manuscripts, discussing his writing progress, having babies, with visits from neighbors Arthur Miller; Mike Nichols and various wives; Dustin Hoffman buying the house over the hill; James Baldwin moving in to Styron’s writing studio and writing \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time\u003c\/i\u003e, with Baldwin encouraging Styron to write \u003ci\u003eNat Turner\u003c\/i\u003e in first person; Frank Sinatra, sailing into Vineyard Haven Harbor and soon dropping by for dinners chez Styrons; the Kennedys having rowdy sleepovers . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd she writes in detail about Bill Styron's full-on breakdowns, his recovery from the first depression; writing \u003ci\u003eDarkness Visible\u003c\/i\u003e. And fifteen years later, the second much worse crash; Bill Styron’s death; her year of grief, teaching at Harvard; living full time on the Vineyard and making a new full life there . . .","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46234445545682,"sku":"9780525659020","price":42.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46234445578450,"sku":"675fcc03-64b4-3d48-9530-b0b5529b6ebb","price":18.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_b15a22bc-91cb-476d-aa05-81c3e9492e31.jpg?v=1763315619","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/beyond-this-harbor","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}