{"product_id":"9780140149074","title":"The Rest of Life: Three Novellas","description":"\u003cp\u003eA National Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In these beautifully rendered novellas, the writer introduces three women, each of whom tells the story of the lover who most altered her life. In \u003ci\u003eImmaculate Man \u003c\/i\u003ehe is a priest, a virgin at the age of forty-three. In \u003ci\u003eLiving at Home\u003c\/i\u003e he is an Italian war correspondent who wants nothing but her body and the sanctuary of their house – until he is seized by news of another revolution. And in \u003ci\u003eThe Rest of Life, \u003c\/i\u003ehe is an intellectual teenager inspired by the Romantic poets to make a suicide pact. He is remembered six decades later by the woman with whom he made the pact. She decided to live. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Mary Gordon’s fiction is the work of a humane, masterly novelist . . . [whose] great gift is making us care about her people.” – \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Each of the three novellas gives us a woman’s love story . . . beautifully written and moving.” – \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022438088944,"sku":"9780140149074","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140149074_p0.jpg?v=1763641908","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140149074","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}