{"title":"Tim Conrad","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-machine-we-trust-stories-paperback","title":"The Machine We Trust: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA boy attends summer camp where campers are tasked with managing their own flocks of sheep; a set of brothers kidnap their father's prized pet buffalo; a young man travels the country with his mother, a peripatetic professor who has pioneered a radical service-learning curriculum; an unemployed man attempts to teach himself to beat a polygraph test. In \u003cem\u003eThe Machine We Trust\u003c\/em\u003e, Tim Conrad's narrators and characters come of age in a surreal American landscape-sometimes late, sometimes unsuccessfully. With exacting prose that searches and clutches, Conrad exposes the cracks where hearts are broken, and redemption is just one chance away.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104838127839,"sku":"9781960329202","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/g0f757xwpZ9781960329202.webp?v=1781111420"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/tim-conrad.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}