{"product_id":"9780871402899","title":"Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer","description":"\u003cp\u003eMemory, mythology, and obsession collide in this “slyly charming” (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e) account of the giant squid.\u003c\/p\u003e In 1874, Moses Harvey—eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist—was the first person to photograph the near-mythic giant squid, draping it over his shower curtain rod to display its magnitude. In \u003cem\u003ePreparing the Ghost\u003c\/em\u003e, what begins as Harvey’s story becomes spectacularly “slippery and many-armed” (NewYorker.com) as Matthew Gavin Frank winds his narrative tentacles around history, creative nonfiction, science, memoir, and meditations about the interrelated nature of them all. In his full-hearted, lyrical style, Frank weaves in playful forays about his trip to Harvey’s Newfoundland home, his own childhood and family history, and a catalog of peculiar facts that recall Melville ’s story of obsession with another deep-sea dwelling leviathan. “Totally original and haunting” (\u003cem\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003ePreparing the Ghost\u003c\/em\u003e is a delightfully unpredictable inquiry into the big, beautiful human impulse to obsess.","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114466656496,"sku":"9780871402899","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780871402899_p0.jpg?v=1763837241","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780871402899","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}