{"product_id":"planet-claire-suite-for-cello-and-sad-eyed-lovers-1","title":"Planet Claire: Suite for Cello and Sad-Eyed Lovers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe second installment in Ann Hood's Gracie Belle imprint challenges the traditional solemnity that characterizes nonfiction books of grief, loss, and sorrow.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Few readers will fail to be gripped by this tragically common story about death and what comes after for those left behind...A haunting and thought-provoking consideration of death and 'how utterly it rips apart our lives.'\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePorter has written a memoir about the year after  Claire] died, a year he spent grieving and grappling with how to live and how to remember.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTalk of Iowa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn inherently absorbing, thoughtful and thought-provoking read, \u003ci\u003ePlanet Claire: Suite for Cello and Sad-Eyed Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e is laced with unexpectedly effective blend of humor and heartbreak, love and loss, that is as intimately personal as it is recognizably universal.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough his turmoil and grief, readers are plunged into 274 pages of Porter's past and present, and through space as he navigates what he calls 'Planet Claire.' The piece beautifully describes what his life with her was like and what it will be like with her not there.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Iowan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn elegiac prose, the bereft Porter grieves by reminiscing about the life  he and Claire] shared together...Porter's memoir is a wistful, often painful, but beautifully written account of the trauma of grief, and also embodies the way writing provides solace from the bleak absurdities of life.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A] warmly rich, wholly enveloping and vividly ambient memoir.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eExclusive Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA searing account of love lost.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMuggleNet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeff Porter has given us an incredibly warm, rich, vivid memoir, a love letter to his deceased wife and an autobiography of love attained and lost. When a person dies a world passes away, yet Porter has created a cabinet of wonders out of a thousand bits of the world that vanished when his wife died. The sentences are sharp and surprising, perfectly formed, by turns painful, funny, haunting, and inevitably right.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eRichard Preston\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hot Zone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeff Porter indelibly conjures his lost, beloved Claire in a 'spiral galaxy' of memory, while offering the story of a delicious marriage in prose that is elegiac but also gorgeous, funny, and endearingly modest.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eHonor Moore\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bishop's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlanet Claire\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the untimely death of the autho\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gracie Belle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39328642728036,"sku":"9781617759079","price":31.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/planet-claire-suite-for-cello-and-sad-eyed-lovers-1","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}