{"product_id":"9781593762193","title":"Enough About You","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eWhat does it mean to construct a self? What does it mean to turn your life into a narrative? What’s gained? What’s lost? What lies inevitably get told? What deeper truths are reached or at least reached for? \u003ci\u003eEnough About You\u003c\/i\u003e has no answers to these questions, but it frames and asks these questions in a much more overt, honest, precise, and provocative way than any book has attempted yet, and tries to do so while also delivering the pleasures of narrative, of memoir, of search-for-self.\u003cbr\u003eWith moving and often hilarious candor, Shields explores the connections between fiction and nonfiction, stuttering and writing, literary forms and literary contents, art and life; he confronts bad reviews of his earlier books; he examines why he read a college girlfriend’s journal; he raids a wide range of cultural figures (from Rousseau, Nabokov, and Salinger to Bill Murray, Adam Sandler, and Bobby Knight) for what they have to tell him about himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnough About You\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about David Shields. But it is also a terrifically engrossing exploration and exploitation of self-reflection, self-absorption, full-blown narcissism, and the impulse to write about oneself. In a world awash with memoirs and tell-alls, Shields has created something unique: he invites the reader into his mind as he turns his life into a narrative.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"David Shields","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42884542005408,"sku":"9781593762193","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_579de0af-6dd9-455e-bf95-e56c68c75440.jpg?v=1672249459","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9781593762193","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}