{"title":"John Burnham Schwartz","description":"John Burnham Schwartz is the author of Bicycle Days and Reservation Road, which have been translated into more than ten languages. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, and Vogue. He lives with his wife, filmmaker Aleksandra Crapanzano, in Brooklyn, New York.","products":[{"product_id":"claire-marvel-paperback","title":"Claire Marvel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA young man and woman meet, love each other, and are consumed. It's a story as old as romance itself, but in this enthralling novel John Burnham Schwartz tells it with heart-stopping new immediacy. In the middle of a rainstorm Julian Rose, a self-effacing Harvard graduate student, takes refuge beneath a girl's yellow umbrella. The girl, the woman, is Claire Marvel, lovely, mercurial, mired in family tragedy. She is the last person someone like Julian should fall in love with. But he does. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat ensues is a great and difficult passion strewn with obstacles-not least those arising from Claire and Julian's disparate characters. And as these young people find and lose each other, then seek each other anew, Schwartz places romantic love within an entire continuum of attachments that require the full reserves of our openness and courage.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA young man and woman meet, love each other, and are consumed. It's a story as old as romance itself, but in this enthralling novel John Burnham Schwartz tells it with heart-stopping new immediacy. In the middle of a rainstorm Julian Rose, a self-effacing Harvard graduate student, takes refuge beneath a girl's yellow umbrella. The girl, the woman, is Claire Marvel, lovely, mercurial, mired in family tragedy. She is the last person someone like Julian should fall in love with. But he does. \u003cbr\u003eWhat ensues is a great and difficult passion strewn with obstacles-not least those arising from Claire and Julian's disparate characters. And as these young people find and lose each other, then seek each other anew, Schwartz places romantic love within an entire continuum of attachments that require the full reserves of our openness and courage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51438429765855,"sku":"9780375719158","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/FQU8udds79780375719158.webp?v=1790097093"},{"product_id":"reservation-road-paperback","title":"Reservation Road - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A dark and irresistible miracle: a heartbreaking thriller.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Haunting. . . . A powerful and affecting novel.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA tragic accident sets in motion a cycle of violence and retribution in John Burnham Schwartz's riveting novel \u003cb\u003eReservation Road\u003c\/b\u003e. Two haunted men and their families are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an unexpected and horrendous death. Ethan, a respected professor of literature at a small New England college, is wracked by an obsession with revenge that threatens to tear his family apart. Dwight, a man at once fleeing his crime and hoping to get caught, wrestles with overwhelming guilt and his sense of obligation to his son. As these two men's lives unravel, \u003cb\u003eReservation Road\u003c\/b\u003e moves to its startling conclusion. This is an astonishing tale of love and loss, rage and redemption, that is as suspenseful as it is emotionally compelling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Thrums with suspense and moral ambiguity. . . . This is one of those rare--very rare--novels that you don't so much read as inhabit and that makes everyday life seem altogether mysterious.\" --\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A triumph . . . character-driven as it is, it reads like a thriller, swift and complete.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \"New York Times Notable Book of the Year \u003cbr\u003e\"A dark and irresistible miracle: a heartbreaking thriller.\"--\"Los Angeles Times \u003cbr\u003e\"Haunting. . . . A powerful and affecting novel.\"--\"The New York Times \u003cbr\u003eA tragic accident sets in motion a cycle of violence and retribution in John Burnham Schwartz's riveting novel Reservation Road. Two haunted men and their families are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an unexpected and horrendous death. Ethan, a respected professor of literature at a small New England college, is wracked by an obsession with revenge that threatens to tear his family apart. Dwight, a man at once fleeing his crime and hoping to get caught, wrestles with overwhelming guilt and his sense of obligation to his son. As these two men's lives unravel, Reservation Road moves to its startling conclusion. This is an astonishing tale of love and loss, rage and redemption, that is as suspenseful as it is emotionally compelling. \u003cbr\u003e\"Thrums with suspense and moral ambiguity. . . . This is one of those rare--very rare--novels that you don't so much read as inhabit and that makes everyday life seem altogether mysterious.\" --\"Entertainment Weekly \u003cbr\u003e\"A triumph . . . character-driven as it is, it reads like a thriller, swift and complete.\"--\"The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67657377054943,"sku":"9780375702730","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/DyYyCvLIUc9780375702730.webp?v=1790535114"},{"product_id":"northwest-corner-paperback","title":"Northwest Corner - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Nuanced and moving . . . [a] story about the indestructible bonds of family.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom John Burnham Schwartz, one of the our most compelling and compassionate writers, comes a riveting novel about the complex, fierce, ultimately inspiring resilience of families in the face of life's most difficult and unexpected challenges. Twelve years after a tragic accident and a cover-up that led to prison time, Dwight Arno, at fifty, is a man who has started over without exactly moving on. Living alone in California, Dwight manages a sporting goods store and dates a woman to whom he hasn't revealed the truth about his past. Then Sam, Dwight's estranged college-age son, shows up without warning, fleeing a devastating incident in his own life. As the two men are forced to confront their similar natures and their half-buried hopes for connection, they must also search for redemption in their attempts to rewrite, outrun, or eradicate the past.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eNorthwest Corner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A great American novel.\"\u003cb\u003e--Abraham Verghese\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the most emotionally commanding novels of the year.\"\u003cb\u003e--NPR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Exhilarating . . . In Schwartz's hands, the narrative unfolds delicately, each chapter a puzzle piece that fits seamlessly into the whole. [Grade: ] A.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A compelling tale of a family . . . finding their way back together again.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--The Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stark and deeply affecting . . . Readers will grow to care deeply about whether and how [the characters'] lives can be redeemed.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The masterful \u003ci\u003eNorthwest Corner\u003c\/i\u003e is that finest of things--a moral novel about mortal events.\"\u003cb\u003e--Dennis Lehane\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67826582913247,"sku":"9780812980516","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/2sndUy2mVi9780812980516.webp?v=1790743878"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/john-burnham-schwartz.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}