{"id":2662,"date":"2010-10-01T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T14:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2010-10-01T09:37:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T14:37:29","slug":"the-more-i-owe-you-by-michael-sledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=2662","title":{"rendered":"The More I Owe You by Michael Sledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fc97815824357631.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2666\" title=\"FC9781582435763\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fc97815824357631.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"92\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>&#8220;In 1951, Elizabeth Bishop boarded a ship bound for Rio de Janeiro for a two-week holiday with friends. Once there, she fell in love- and two weeks became seventeen years.<\/p>\n<p>In this mesmerizing debut novel, Michael Sledge creates an intimate portrait of bishop- of the years she spent in Brazil and her love the dazzling aristocratic Lota de Macedo Soares. Drawing from Bishop&#8217;s personal correspondence to reveal the poet&#8217;s intensely private world, Sledge portrays a literary genius who lived in conflict with herself both as a writer and as a woman. As her seemingly idyllic existence in Lota&#8217;s glass house in the jungle gives way to the truth of Bishop&#8217;s lifelong demons and battle with alcoholism, her status rises as modernism&#8217;s most celebrated writers.&#8221; [from bookjacket &#8211; Counterpoint Press 2010]<\/p>\n<p>Whether you are a fan of Elizabeth Bishop&#8217;s poetry, read the wonderful collection of her correspondence with Robert Lowell, <em>Words in Air<\/em> or not, you will be moved by this compassionate portrait of two women artists in search of themselves who for a time, found great happiness in one other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In 1951, Elizabeth Bishop boarded a ship bound for Rio de Janeiro for a two-week holiday with friends. Once there, she fell in love- and two weeks became seventeen years. In this mesmerizing debut novel, Michael Sledge creates an intimate portrait of bishop- of the years she spent in Brazil and her love the dazzling&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-GW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}