{"product_id":"9780804152938","title":"Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters: Introduction by Hermione Lee","description":"\u003cp\u003e(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEthan Frome\u003c\/i\u003e is one of Wharton's most famous works; it is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. \u003ci\u003eSummer,\u003c\/i\u003e also set in rural New England, is often considered a companion to \u003ci\u003eEthan Frome\u003c\/i\u003e-Wharton herself called it “the hot Ethan”-in its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and social awakening. \u003ci\u003eBunner Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e takes place in the narrow, dusty streets of late nineteenth-century New York City, where the constrained but peaceful lives of two spinster shopkeepers are shattered when they meet a man who becomes the unworthy focus of all their pent-up hopes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll three of these novellas feature realistic and haunting characters as vivid as any Wharton ever conjured, and together they provide a superb introduction to the shorter fiction of one of our greatest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128187404528,"sku":"9780804152938","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780804152938_p0.jpg?v=1763728384","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780804152938","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}