{"product_id":"9780814293256","title":"The Deer in the Mirror","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith a song-like voice and deep knowledge of the history and folklore of her native Virginia, Cary Holladay creates dazzling stories of hardship and ecstasy. A young widow romances a German immigrant while weighing a proposal from the colonial governor. Convicted of murdering her master, an enslaved woman is burned at the stake. A breakneck stagecoach ride gives a bricklayer’s apprentice the power to save or destroy his fellow passengers. An aging bachelor despairs of his marriage to a Confederate orphan. A beautiful adventuress joins the 1898 Alaska Gold Rush, charms a violent gangster, and figures out the secret of his fabulous wealth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis seventh book from an award-winning author spans 300 years in the Old Dominion. Holladay’s people fight the wars, battle the floods, and wrest a living from a wilderness where “Time is God’s, not ours”—so says a reformed prostitute whose obsessive love for an amnesiac Yankee soldier defines her life. With a sensuous, lyrical style, Holladay holds a distinctive place in contemporary fiction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAll of these stories have appeared in major literary journals and anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eTin House \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNew Stories from the South: The Year’s Best\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016671248624,"sku":"9780814293256","price":19.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814293256","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}