{"product_id":"bern-book","title":"Bern Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bern Book\u003c\/i\u003e is a travelogue, a memoir, a \"diary of an isolated soul\" (Darryl Pinckney), and a meditation on the myth and reality of race in midcentury Europe and America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1953, having left the US and settled in Bern, Switzerland, Vincent O. Carter, a struggling writer, set about composing a \"record of a voyage of the mind.\" The voyage begins with Carter's furiously good-humored description of how, every time he leaves the house, he must face the possibility of being asked \"the hated question\" (namely, Why did you, a black man born in America, come to Bern?). It continues with stories of travel, war, financial struggle, the pleasure of walking, the pain of self-loathing, and, through it all, various experiments in what Carter calls \"lacerating subjective sociology.\" Now this long-neglected volume is back in print for the first time since 1973.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48841250439373,"sku":"9781628973853","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_e7d7e150-d22d-42b5-9045-8ce2fc74134c.jpg?v=1792025751","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/bern-book","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}