{"product_id":"9780910155618","title":"Tales Before Midnight","description":"This remarkable volume of stories from the author of Hostage to Fortune has been produced over a lifetime of writing. Tales Before Midnight explores a wide range of human emotion and events, from a city terrorized by a wild beast to the amusing spectacle of a gang of tree climbers just trying to stay out of trouble. There's the wealthy merchant and his teen-age bride, the Malagasy totocaf in Beethoven's Vienna and the mysterious stowaway who witnesses the guilty deeds of his fellow voyagers - or does he? A young and imaginative writer gets an early lesson in prejudice and censorship. A columnist tries to blackmail a crusading senator, a doctor once convicted of euthanasia is asked years later to commit the same act again, and a forgotten French town is liberated by a deserter and experiences close calls in a satirical retrospective of Cold War Europe. Tales Before Midnight rewrites the old adage that \"truth is stranger than fiction\". Certainly in these stories, fiction is often truer than truth.","brand":"Bartleby Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019959484656,"sku":"9780910155618","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780910155618_p0.jpg?v=1763863344","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780910155618","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}