{"product_id":"2940153896243","title":"Coming Up Short","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a multifaceted treat: a sparkling collection of T.V. LoCicero’s best short fiction and non-fiction penned over the past five decades—14 stories, memoirs, essays and occasional pieces that are by turns brilliant, hilarious, moving and insightful. Together they offer a wonderful array of unlikely but vividly realized characters:\u003cbr\u003e--A colorful black caddie who plays one of the strangest rounds in the history of golf.\u003cbr\u003e--The mild, unassuming fellow often dubbed the greatest crime writer of our time.\u003cbr\u003e--A Hall of Fame athlete whose decades of triumph ended in sudden death on a Manhattan street.\u003cbr\u003e--A comfortable suburban matron who pays a charitable call on the squalid inner-city room of her long-time maid.\u003cbr\u003e--The Little League dad whose compulsive flirtation with Lady Luck may cost him his thumbs, fingernails or the soul of his son.\u003cbr\u003e--An earnest young reporter who thinks the witty, gorgeous gal he just met is too good to be true…until she claims to adore him, and then he’s got one small problem.\u003cbr\u003e--A meddling spinster so perversely intent on helping her eccentric old housemate that nothing good can ever come of it.\u003cbr\u003e--The author himself back in the day, divorced, broke, living in a refashioned garage and looking for a job that pays.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"T.V. LoCicero","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070499274992,"sku":"2940153896243","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940153896243_p0.jpg?v=1764058971","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940153896243","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}