{"product_id":"9780814788721","title":"Indentations and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndentation and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of nine stories ranging from the wildly funny and idiosyncratic to the downright bizarre.  The title story features a pathological dentist who seeks a quirky catharsis by decorating his apartment in hygienic dental paraphernalia.  Other tales frolic through the lives of characters who border on the delightfully absurd: a woman, after going through menopause, struggles to recreate her menstrual periods by altering her diet; a former New York street reporter, fired because of his \"ideals,\" aspires to become a credible street person and decides, tentatively, to have a religious experience; an English major turned psychologist writes a pseudoscientific \"article\"—complete with footnotes and a University of New Jersey cover letter—which argues, by example, for the use of figurative language in scientific journal writing.  Other stories are more humanizing: \"The Perils of Asthma\" is a sympathetic lok at a twelve-year-old boy struggling to grow up amidst his perplexing asthma, his eccentric Catholic parents, and his mystifying quasi-erections.  All of the stories are grounded in the allure of language, the luxuriance of detail, and the celebration of human compulsion and obsession.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107411476720,"sku":"9780814788721","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814788721_p0.jpg?v=1763741798","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814788721","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}