{"product_id":"on-being-blue","title":"On Being Blue","description":"\u003ci\u003eOn Being Blue\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about everything blue—sex and  sleaze and sadness, among other things—and about everything else. It  brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among  contemporary American writers, can do. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gass writes:    \u003cbr\u003eOf the colors, blue and green have the greatest  emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn  up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs everywhere: in ice and  water, in the flame as purely as in the flower, overhead and inside  caves, covering fruit and oozing out of clay. Although green enlivens  the earth and mixes in the ocean, and we find it, copperish, in fire;  green air, green skies, are rare. Gray and brown are widely distributed,  but there are no joyful swatches of either, or any of exuberant  black, sullen pink, or acquiescent orange. Blue is therefore most  suitable as the color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high  bright thin quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow  smooth heavy old and warm: blue moves easily among them all, and all  profoundly qualify our states of feeling.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57317322523006,"sku":"NW9781590177181","price":8.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781590177181.jpg?v=1778646568","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/on-being-blue","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}