{"product_id":"9780061544521","title":"Outer Banks: Three Early Novels (P.S. Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn Omnibus Edition of Three Classic Early Novels from the Critically Acclaimed Author of \u003ci\u003eCloudsplitter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAffliction\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFamily Life:\u003c\/i\u003e Russell Banks's first novel is an adult fairy tale of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom where the myriad dramas of domesticity blend with an outrageous slew of murders, mayhem, coups, debauches, world tours, and love in all guises, transcendent or otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHamilton Stark:\u003c\/i\u003e This tale of a solitary, boorish, misanthropic New Hampshire pipe fitter—the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother—is at once a compelling meditation on identity and a thoroughly engaging story of life on the cold edge of New England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Relation of My Imprisonment:\u003c\/i\u003e Utilizing a form invented by imprisoned seventeenth-century Puritan divines—an utterly sincere and detailed, if highly artificial, recounting of great suffering—Banks's novel is a remarkably inventive, lovingly good-humored argument, exploration, and map of the caged religious mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008028754160,"sku":"9780061544521","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061544521_p0.jpg?v=1763771101","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061544521","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}