{"product_id":"letters-from-max-by-max-ritvo-9781571313751","title":"Letters from Max","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, intensely curious and intensely gifted poet in remission from paediatric cancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the next four years—in which Ritvo's illness returned and his health began to decline, even as his productivity bloomed—the two traded a series of letters that spark with urgency, humour, and the desire for connection. Reincarnation, the loving playfulness of postmodernism, the afterlife as an Amtrak quiet car, good soup: in Ruhl and Ritvo's exchanges, all ideas are fair, nourishing game, shared and debated in the spirit of generosity and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"We'll always know one another forever, however long ever is,\" Ritvo writes. \"And that's all I want—is to know you forever.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStudded with poems and songs, \u003ci\u003eLetters from Max\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and the afterlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46844377596140,"sku":"9781571313751","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12272383482747.jpg?v=1758839651","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/letters-from-max-by-max-ritvo-9781571313751","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}