{"product_id":"2940000820124","title":"Autumn Shadows in August","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinalist Multicultural Literature: Dan Poynter’s 2012 Global Ebook Awards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModeled roughly on Malcolm Lowry's \"Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid,\" this novel is part homage to Lowry and Hermann Hesse, part mushroom retrospective, and part middle-aged love story. David Thompson (the protagonist in Norris's \"Looking for the Summer\") is an expatriate American teaching at a Japanese university and suffering from hepatitis C. His wife Kaori is recovering from cancer surgery. Feeling a strong sense of their own mortality, confusion about the significance of what they have done with their lives, and a need to escape the constrictions of their life in Japan, the two set out on a journey to Europe to retrace a path from David's adventurous youth and locate a German benefactor from the past. What lies ahead--a trip through the Magic Theater, a sudden death, an encounter with Lowry's ghost, and a descent into the Capuchin Crypt in Rome--will change their lives irrevocably.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert W. Norris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147047059696,"sku":"2940000820124","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940000820124_p0.jpg?v=1763899010","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940000820124","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}