{"product_id":"9780140032574","title":"The Enormous Room","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1917 young Edward Estlin Cummings went to France as a volunteer with a Red Cross ambulance unit on the Western Front. But his free-spirited, insubordinate ways soon got him tagged as a possible enemy of La Patrie, and he was summarily tossed into a French concentration camp at La Ferte-Mace in Normandy. Under the vilest conditions, Cummings found fulfillment of his ever elusive quest for freedom. The Enormous Room, his account of his four-month confinement, reads like a latter-day Pilgrim's Progress, a journey into dispossession, to a place among the most debased and deprived of human creatures. Cummings's hopeful tone reflects the essential paradox of his existence: to lose everything is to become free, and so to be saved.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"E.E. Cummings","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53046718464160,"sku":"9780140032574","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/2858413.jpg?v=1763659293","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780140032574","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}