{"product_id":"walls-2","title":"Walls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalls: Essays, 1985-1990\u003c\/i\u003e, Kenneth McClane's first book of autobiographical essays (originally published in 1991), is closely related to his second collection, \u003ci\u003eColor\u003c\/i\u003e, published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2009. Walls is a powerful and deeply moving meditation on relationships. It begins with an essay on the death of McClane's brother, Paul, which \"changed everything. Time, my work, everything found a new calculus.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis brother's life and death are present in some way in all the essays that follow \"A Death in the Family,\" as McClane tells us about giving a poetry reading in a maximum-security prison; his experience of being one of the first two African American students to attend America's oldest private school; teaching creative writing; his sister, Adrienne; a divestment protest at Cornell; and his encounters with James Baldwin. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMcClane has written a new preface to this paperback edition of Walls, in which he reminds us that we are inevitably interconnected: we are each other’s witness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Kenneth A. McClane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573979775158,"sku":"9780268207151","price":62.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780268207151_44c1302d-1b34-449c-8f37-66cd78d7d476.jpg?v=1738964531","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/walls-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}