{"product_id":"sometimes-i-never-suffered","title":"Sometimes I Never Suffered","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSometimes I Never Suffered\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eShane McCrae\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374602918\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e112\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpanning religious, historical, and political themes, the seventh collection from the award-winning poet\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI think now more than half\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf life is death but I can't die\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnough for all the life I see\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSometimes I Never Suffered\u003c\/i\u003e, his seventh collection of poems, Shane McCrae remains \"a shrewd composer of American stories\" (Dan Chiasson, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e). Here, an angel, hastily thrown together by his fellow residents of Heaven, plummets to Earth in his first moments of consciousness. Jim Limber, the adopted mixed-race son of Jefferson Davis, wanders through the afterlife, reckoning with the nuances of America's racial history, as well as his own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSometimes I Never Suffered\u003c\/i\u003e is a search for purpose and atonement, freedom and forgiveness, imagining eternity not as an escape from the past or present, but as a reverberating record and as the culmination of time's manifold potential to mend.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Sometimes I Never Suffered | Shane McCrae | Paperback | 9780374602918 | New | Poetry 1286502","offer_id":48241795268760,"sku":"1286502","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81N78ECQjxL.jpg?v=1773068474","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/sometimes-i-never-suffered","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}