{"product_id":"9780547526768","title":"Bay of Souls","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom a National Book Award–winning author: An obsessive love leads a man into a spiral of corruption and crime in a novel “as frightening as it is hypnotic” (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Robert Stone's remarkable novel is a psychological thriller of razor-sharp intensity: mysterious, erotic, and deeply readable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Michael Ahearn, a professor at a rural college, sheds his comfortable assumptions when he becomes obsessed with a new faculty member from the Caribbean, Lara Purcell. An expert in Third World politics, Lara is seductive, dangerous—and in thrall, she claims, to a voodoo spirit who has taken possession of her soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Impassioned and determined, Michael pursues Lara to her native island of St. Trinity, heedless of the political upheaval there. Together they desperately attempt to reclaim all that Lara has lost. Yet island intrigue ensnares them. Lara sacrifices herself to ritual and superstition. Michael is caught unawares in a high-stakes smuggling scheme. In his feverish state of mind, the world becomes an ever-shifting phantasmagoria. He is, himself, possessed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBay of Souls\u003c\/i\u003e, readers will recognize the trademarks of Stone's greatest fiction: the American embroiled in Third World corruption, the diplomats and covert operatives, the idealists and opportunists. Yet here the author's sights are set inward, to a place where politics is superfluous, experience unreliable. Never before has Stone probed so powerfully the psychological depths of one man's mind. What he finds there defies expectations.","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107073835248,"sku":"9780547526768","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547526768_p0.jpg?v=1769896101","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547526768","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}