{"product_id":"9780307425669","title":"Dream Stuff: Stories","description":"Here are nine haunting stories from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eRemembering Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e, in which history and geography, as well as the past and the present, combine and often collide, illuminating the landscape and revealing the character of Australia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn eleven-year-old boy sees his father in his own elongated shadow only to realize that he will not return from the war. In a parting moment, a young woman hired to “marry” vacationing soldiers, grasps the weight of the word “woe.” When a failing farmer senselessly murders a wandering aborigine, he imperils his son but discovers in the spring of sympathy that follows the power to influence others. Wise and moving, startling and lyrical,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDream Stuff\u003c\/b\u003e reverberates with the unpredictability of human experience, revealing people who are shaped by the mysterious rhythms of nature as well as the ghosts of their own pasts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116325585136,"sku":"9780307425669","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307425669_p0.jpg?v=1763672693","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307425669","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}