{"product_id":"9780811221689","title":"Morphine","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of The Master and Margarita comes this short and tragic masterpiece about drug addiction\u003cbr\u003eYoung Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend’s aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What Bromgard uncovers in the entries is Polyakov’s uncontrollable and merciless descent into morphine addiction — his first injection to ease his back pain, the thrill of the drug as it overtakes him, the looming signs of addiction, and the feverish final entries before his death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030672982256,"sku":"9780811221689","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811221689_p0.jpg?v=1763740997","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811221689","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}