{"product_id":"2940045101660","title":"New York \/ Siena: Two Short Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Two sharp novellas that vividly complement each other!\" —Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first of these two lively tales is about a cautionary rise, the second about an illusory fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Man Who Owned New York” gives us faultless young Father Stackpole. Fresh from Divinity School in 1907, he is secretary to Father Day, rector of All Angels, New York City’s richest Episcopal parish, which derives its billion-dollar wealth from 200 Manhattan acres abloom with skyscrapers. But a Kansas farmer, Mr. Denton Slaughter, claims that his Tory ancestors granted All Angels only a ten-year lease on his family’s 200-acre farm in 1793, but lost the documents needed to reclaim it. With him to New York Slaughter has brought his daughter, delectable Delia, and those lost documents, mysteriously recovered. Father Day charges young Stackpole with getting rid of the pesky Kansan. But Slaughter’s proofs look as irresistible as Delia’s charms. It takes a “gaudy crime” for Father Stackpole to find “my own true path.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Springtime in Siena” takes us to storied Tuscany for a semester abroad in 1974 with seventeen undergrads led by Gary, an obscure, ruthless, and self-delusive university instructor. Looking back over that magic springtime years later, Gary fastens a tell-all eye on what his sex-charged students were up to. For him it was a pivotal time. “Under the tutelage first of a disastrous affair and then by falling in love,” he says, he determined to abandon “the lifestyle that debarred me from the world’s respect” and seek success and importance in the museum world. Could he? Did he? At what price?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steven Key Meyers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171320119536,"sku":"2940045101660","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045101660_p0.jpg?v=1763673833","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045101660","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}