{"product_id":"9780060886837","title":"The Whore's Child and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eAwarded the Pulitzer Prize for his bestselling \u003ci\u003eEmpire Falls\u003c\/i\u003e - also named the year's best novel by \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e -- Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. With a fluency of tone that will surprise even his devoted readers, he captures both bewildering horror and heartrending tenderness with an absorbing, compassionate authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe warm to these newcomers -- as to all Russo's characters -- almost despite ourselves. A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he'd harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as lie watches his parents' marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing crosscountry escape whose actual purpose lie learns only after the fact. An elderly couple rediscovers the power and the misery of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a resort island. And in the title story, a septuagenarian min invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA masterful novelist here extends his versatility and accomplishment, in a collection that demonstrates yet again that \"there is a big, wry heart beating at the center of Russo's fiction\" \u003ci\u003e(The New Yorker).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47094030401776,"sku":"9780060886837","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060886837_p0.jpg?v=1763621222","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060886837","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}