{"product_id":"hamlets-dresser-a-memoir","title":"Hamlet's Dresser: A Memoir used bio","description":"\u003cp\u003eBob Smith grew up in a town named for Shakespeare's birthplace: Stratford, Connecticut. His troubled childhood was spent in a struggle to help his devastated parents care for his severely retarded sister. But at age ten, Smith stumbled onto a line from The Merchant of Venice: \"In sooth I know not why I am so sad.\" In the language of Shakespeare, he had found a window through which to view the world.\u003cbr\u003eWhen he was a teenager, the American Shakespeare Festival moved into Stratford and Smith became Hamlet's dresser. As he watched the plays from backstage, his life's passion took shape, \"I was a lonely, screwed-up kid, but the circus had come to town,\" Smith writes. \"It had put up its strange tent, and I was being seduced to run away with it.\"\u003cbr\u003eHere, in prose Smith tells the story of a life shaped by poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kicks Mix Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48037514576035,"sku":"9780684852690","price":2.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/6831\/6835\/files\/9780684852690.jpg?v=1787583091","url":"https:\/\/kicksmixbooks.store\/products\/hamlets-dresser-a-memoir","provider":"Kicks Mix Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}