{"product_id":"9780547524795","title":"The Beginning of Spring","description":"\u003cb\u003eMan Booker Prize Finalist: This “marvelous novel” about an abandoned husband, set in Moscow a century ago, is “bristling with wry comedy” (\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e March 1913. Moscow is stirring herself to meet the beginning of spring. English painter Frank Reid returns from work one night to find that his wife has gone away; no one knows where or why, or whether she’ll ever come back. All Frank knows for sure is that he is now alone and must find someone to care for his three young children.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Into Frank’s life comes Lisa Ivanovna, a quiet, calming beauty from the country, untroubled to the point of seeming simple. But is she? And why has Frank’s bookkeeper, Selwyn Crane, gone to such lengths to bring these two together?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e From a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, this novel, with a new introduction by Andrew Miller, author of \u003ci\u003ePure\u003c\/i\u003e, is filled with “writing so precise and lilting it can make you shiver” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Fitzgerald was the author of several slim, perfect novels. \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Flower\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Beginning of Spring \u003c\/i\u003eboth had me abuzz for days the first time I read them. She was curiously perfect.” —Teju Cole, author of \u003ci\u003eOpen City\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123742720240,"sku":"9780547524795","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547524795_p0.jpg?v=1769896412","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547524795","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}