{"product_id":"eveningland-stories-paperback","title":"Eveningland: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice short story collection hailed as \"a fresh masterpiece of Southern fiction . . . touching, haunting and brilliant\" (\u003ci\u003eDallas News\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong considered a master of the form and an essential voice in American fiction, Michael Knight delivers a \"deft and wonderful, wholly original\" collection of interlinked stories set among the members of a Mobile, Alabama family in the years preceding a devastating hurricane (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrappling with dramas both epic and personal, from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to the \"unspeakable misgivings of contentment,\" \u003ci\u003eEveningland \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures with perfect authenticity of place the ways in which ordinary life astounds us with its complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA teenaged girl with a taste for violence holds a burglar hostage in her house on New Year's Eve; a middle-aged couple examines the intricacies of their marriage as they prepare to throw a party; and a real estate mogul in the throes of grief buys up all the property on an island only to be accused of madness by his daughters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese stories, infused with humor and pathos, excavate brilliantly the latent desires and motivations that drive life forward in \"a luminous collection from a writer of the first rank\" (\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68086781346015,"sku":"9780802127648","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KNkX4KhdEm9780802127648.webp?v=1792363889","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/eveningland-stories-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}