{"product_id":"the-heart-is-an-instrument-portraits-in-journalism-9780870239427","title":"The Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism","description":"From the foreword by Geneva Overholser. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat is it about really fine writers, how they delight, intrigue, compel us? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStyle, you say. But style is not something you begin with. Rather, it's what you end up with, a result of far more fundamental traits. Traits such as an ear and an eye and a heart, traits that Madeliene Blais has honed superbly well. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a book well named: \u003ci\u003eThe Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism. The\u003c\/i\u003e heart is surely first among Blais's gifts. Whether she is writing about the famous--playwright tennessee Williams, novelist Mary Gordon--or about the least elevated among us--a teenage prostitute infected with the AIDS virus, a homeless schizophrenic--she brings to her subjects an incomparable empathy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-32961\"\u003eMadeleine Blais\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.74h x 5.46w x 0.96d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870239427\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0870239422\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LCO\"\u003eLiterary Collections\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LCO010000\"\u003eEssays\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMadeleine Blais is professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts. In 1980, while on the staff of the \u003ci\u003eMiami Herald, \u003c\/i\u003e she won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Her latest book is \u003ci\u003eIn These Girls Hope Is a Muscle.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44581357486317,"sku":"9780870239427","price":54.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_a1ef7ad5-49f4-4649-acdf-88fad8f6c47c.jpg?v=1702088422","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-heart-is-an-instrument-portraits-in-journalism-9780870239427","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}