{"product_id":"9780871409546","title":"Eustace Chisholm and the Works: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[S]o good that almost any novel you read immediately after it will seem at least a little bit posturing.\" —Jonathan Franzen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNo James Purdy novel has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A seedy depression-era boarding house in Chicago plays host to \"a game of emotional chairs\" (\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e) in a novel initially condemned for its frank depiction of abortion, homosexuality, and life on the margins of American society. A cast of characters displaced by economic distress congeal around the embittered poet Eustace Chisholm, who acts as a something of a Greek chorus for the doomed and destructive relationship that is instigated when landlord Daniel Haws falls in love with young college student Amos Ratcliffe. Building to a shocking conclusion, \u003cem\u003eEustace Chisholm and the Works\u003c\/em\u003e is a dark and gothic look at the strange and terrible power of love amid a \"psychic American landscape of deluded innocence, sexual obsession, violence, and isolation\" (William Grimes, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101620519152,"sku":"9780871409546","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780871409546_p0.jpg?v=1763838972","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780871409546","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}