{"product_id":"9780070457348","title":"Transparent Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero—sullen, gawky Hugh Person—to Switzerland . . .  As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after  multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride. . . . Eight years later—following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment—Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past. . . . The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects.\"  —Martin Amis\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McGraw-Hill Companies, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015679033584,"sku":"9780070457348","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780070457348","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}