{"product_id":"9780679748274","title":"My Life as a Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, \u003cb\u003eMy Life as a Man\u003c\/b\u003e is Roth's most blistering novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen's death, Peter is still trying—and failing—to write his way free of it. Out of desperate inventions and cauterizing truths, acts of weakness, tenderheartedness, and shocking cruelty, Philip Roth creates a work worthy of Strindberg—a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027376488688,"sku":"9780679748274","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679748274_p0.jpg?v=1763606634","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679748274","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}