{"product_id":"worlds-apart-hb-w9","title":"Worlds Apart: A Memoir [2015] hardback","description":"The writer David Plante has kept a diary of his life among the artistic elite for over half a century. It is an extraordinary document, both deeply personal and a rare window onto disappearing worlds. This extracted memoir spans the 1980s, a period of exploration and growth for Plante and his lover Nikos Stangos, a partnership which will endure for forty years.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e David Plante and Nikos Stangos first made a life together in London in the mid-sixties, when as newcomers they were introduced by Stephen Spender to his circle, connections criss-crossing, dazzlingly, through the air of their adopted city, interconnecting so many admired figures.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Now navigating worlds beyond London - from a house-share with Germaine Greer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to a trip to Jerusalem with Philip Roth; from the loss of parents to the growing spectre of AIDS; and in New York, Umbria, Lucca, the Aegean and rural Ireland - these are stories of expanding horizons and of a deepening and developing love: the challenges of monogamy, the strains of separation, of a growing maturity and awareness - and of what it is to belong.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Worlds Apart is a poignant, moving portrait of a relationship and a luminous evocation of a world of writers, poets, artists and thinkers.","brand":"Plante, David","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42524461629625,"sku":"9781408854808","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/plante-david-worlds-apart-a-memoir-2015-hardback-9781408854808-60084328071507.jpg?v=1731822240","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/worlds-apart-hb-w9","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}