{"product_id":"2940013742260","title":"The Double Life of Alfred Buber","description":"Winner! 2013 Award for Literary Fiction - Dactyl Foundation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs you can see, The Double Life of Alfred Buber is great fiction and a good book club pick. When you read this book, you will find it a splendid and absorbing original tale, beautifully crafted with fascinating characters, and a compelling read.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom award-winning novelist David Schmahmann, comes the highly-rated The Double Life of Alfred Buber . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this splendid original tale, you will discover that although Alfred Buber is warm, smart, and romantic, his life is as barren as an ice floe, an embarrassing collage of successes and humiliations that add up to .... nothing. He lives as if he has landed in a strange country, nowhere he recognizes.\u003cbr\u003eCan an-oh-so respectable Boston lawyer, out of options, out of hope, lonely beyond measure, stray way outside the lines and find love?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan he step into the tawdry dark, and back into the wholesome light, and not be affected?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlfred Buber thinks he can. But the line between his two lives is a thin one. The contradictions collide until Buber loses track of what is real and what is pretend, and then inevitably the two collide with ruinous consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the best books of fiction to read! - Just look at the reviews . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\". . .a truly remarkable literary creation. . .\" - The New York Journal of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Double Life of Alfred Buber is an original and sophisticated novel which lingers in the mind. . .\" - Dactyl Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Exquisitely written, detailed, fierily emotional and yet completely cold and callous, The Double Life of Alfred Buber is a unique read that will settle around a reader like a cloying dust and linger, even after a long, hot shower, in the pores. . .\" - Luxury Reading \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMovie rights just optioned!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven more praise . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"From the first page it is evident that Schmahmann has produced interior monologue of the first order . . . An interesting an eccentric companion, 5 Stars.\" - Jim McKeown, KWBU, NPR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An unusual morality play whose artful style veils the depravity of its protagonist.\" - Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is literary fiction at it's best - taut, well crafted, lovely prose, thoroughly engaging, which draws you into the character's strange new world and leaves your reading landscape forever altered.\" - BookConscious \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Double Life of Alfred Buber reads like a lost Nabokov novel. . .the prose is meticulously wrought, the plot deeply complex and psychologically layered. . .\" - Small Press reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscover for your self how good of a fiction read The Double Life of Alfred Buber is. Buy your copy today.","brand":"The Permanent Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152663265520,"sku":"2940013742260","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013742260_p0.jpg?v=1763589643","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013742260","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}