{"product_id":"2940170064885","title":"Sourland: Stories of Loss, Grief, and Forgetting","description":"\u003cp\u003eA gripping and moving new collection of stories that reimagines the meaning of loss amp;ndash; through often unexpected and violent means.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoyce Carol Oates is not only one of our most important novelists and literary critics, she is also an unparalleled master of the short story. \u003ci\u003eSourland\u003c\/i\u003e amp;ndash; 16 previously uncollected stories that explore how the power of violence, loss, and grief shape both the psyche and the soul amp;ndash; shows us an author working at the height of her powers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith lapidary precision and an unflinching eye, Oates maps the surprising contours of ¿ordinary¿ life. From a desperate man who dons a jack-o¿-lantern head as a prelude to a most curious sort of courtship, to a ¿story of a stabbing¿ many times recounted in the life of a lonely girl; from a beguiling young woman librarian whose amputee state attracts a married man and father, to a girl hopelessly in love with her renegade, incarcerated cousin; from a professor¿s wife who finds herself tragically isolated at a party in her own house, to the concluding title story of an unexpectedly redemptive love rooted in radical aloneness and isolation, each story in \u003ci\u003eSourland\u003c\/i\u003e resonates beautifully with Oates¿s trademark fascination for the unpredictable amid the prosaic amp;ndash; the co-mingling of sexual love and violence, the tumult of family life amp;ndash; and shines with her predilection for dark humor and her gift for voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA HarperAudio production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156484669680,"sku":"2940170064885","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170064885_p0.jpg?v=1763701001","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170064885","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}