{"product_id":"9780525435044","title":"Honeymoon and Other Stories","description":"Kevin Canty is a master of the short story, a writer whose work has been compared to that of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver, but always with the understanding that Canty's is strikingly new, cool, and real. Now in \u003cb\u003eHoneymoon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eafter two novels, Kevin Canty returns to short fiction, his first collection since his debut \u003cb\u003eA Stranger in this World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ea book that was hailed as \"Superb:  These tautly structured stories breathe with sharp, distilled intelligence.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoneymoon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis a book about love, about lovers and would-be lovers exploring unlikely alliances, all of them toeing a certain eventful edge, a decision between rational restraint and something altogether different. In the title story, a man leaves his lover's wedding with the bride's ex-girlfriend; in \"Flipper\" a young escapee from \"fat camp\" discovers a different kind of hunger while enjoying a pregnant teen's gifts of forbidden chocolate; in \"Aquarium,\" a thirty-eight-year old woman who claims to \"follow the straight and narrow\" tries to resist seducing her fifteen-year-old nephew again. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eRevealing the hidden longings and quirky needs of both men and women with a tough sensitivity and deep, sometimes biting humor, \u003cb\u003eHoneymoon\u003c\/b\u003e presents a masterful writer purely at home in his form, yet continuing to push himself and his stories to their limits with enthusiasm and daring.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106463105264,"sku":"9780525435044","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780525435044_p0.jpg?v=1763710683","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780525435044","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}