{"product_id":"9780803258785","title":"War Games","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten twenty years before it was first published in 1972, \u003ci\u003eWar Games\u003c\/i\u003e features both black and charcoal-gray humor, whose characters and events are as unpredictable as they are absorbing—a book, in the author's words, \"where the extremity of the bizarre is seen as the ultimate effort to change oneself, if not the world.\" At the center of the novel is the developing relationship between the protagonist, a fifty-three-year-old army colonel, and a Viennese immigrant whom he first knows as Mrs. Tabori and whose story he has learned through a dying amputee, Human Kopfman. Themes and characters that first appear in \u003ci\u003eWar Games\u003c\/i\u003e reappear in \u003ci\u003eThe Field of Vision\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCeremony in Lone Tree\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the preface to this edition, Wright Morris describes the genesis of the book in 1951 and comments on its connections with his late work: \"\u003ci\u003eWar Games\u003c\/i\u003e may well prove to be the seedbed of much more in my fiction than I am aware, since it was the first turning of earth more than twenty years buried. My novels are linked in this manner, but sometimes at odds with the chronology of publication. In the absence of \u003ci\u003eWar Games\u003c\/i\u003e, many clues to the fiction that followed were missing. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[This novel] seems to me darkly somber, a book of interiors, dimly lighted streets, hallways and lobbies, with glimpses of objects and colors that emerge in subdued lighting. I'd like to think that my readers, both new and old, will find the world of the Colonel and Mrs. Tabori relevant to the one in which they are living.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UNP - Nebraska","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020292931824,"sku":"9780803258785","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780803258785_p0.jpg?v=1763739534","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780803258785","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}