{"product_id":"9780374602918","title":"Sometimes I Never Suffered","description":"Author: Shane McCrae\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780374602918\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Farrar Straus Giroux\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 26 Oct 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 112 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning religious, historical, and political themes, the seventh collection from the award-winning poet \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eI think now more than half\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eOf life is death but I can’t die\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eEnough for all the life I see\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nIn \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. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47901053124766,"sku":"ING-9780374602918","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780374602918.jpg?v=1782352700","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780374602918","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}