{"product_id":"9780062410344","title":"Mendocino Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe triumphant, long-awaited return of a writer of remarkable gifts: in this collection of richly imagined stories—her first new work in twenty years—the master of short fiction delivers a diverse suite of stories about men and women confronting their vulnerabilities in times of transition and challenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning in the 1980s, Elizabeth Tallent’s work, appeared in some of our most prestigious literary publications, including \u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker, Esquire,\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eHarper’s.\u003c\/b\u003e Marked by its quiet power and emotional nuance, her fiction garnered widespread praise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, at long last, Tallent returns with a new collection of diverse, thematically linked, and deeply powerful stories that confirm her enduring gift for capturing relationships at their moment of transformation: marriages breaking apart, people haunted by memories of old love and reaching haltingly toward new futures. \u003cb\u003eMendocino Fire\u003c\/b\u003e explore moments of fracture and fragmentation; it limns the wilderness of our inner psyche and brilliantly evokes the electric tension of deep emotion. In these pages, Tallent explores expectations met and thwarted, and our never-ending quest to avoid being alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this breathtaking collection, Elizabeth Tallent cements her rightful place in the literary pantheon beside her contemporaries Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, and Louise Erdrich. Visceral and surprising, profound yet elemental, \u003cb\u003eMendocino Fire\u003c\/b\u003e is a welcome visit with a wise and familiar friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021984350448,"sku":"9780062410344","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780062410344_p0.jpg?v=1763631285","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780062410344","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}