{"product_id":"9780062335821","title":"Outer Banks: Three Early Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn Omnibus Edition of Three Classic Early Novels from the Critically Acclaimed Author of \u003cem\u003eCloudsplitter\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAffliction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFamily Life:\u003c\/em\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\u003cem\u003eHamilton Stark:\u003c\/em\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\u003cem\u003eThe Relation of My Imprisonment:\u003c\/em\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","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47066898727152,"sku":"9780062335821","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780062335821_p0.jpg?v=1763629779","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780062335821","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}