{"product_id":"9780936050430","title":"Q+1: Short Works from the Quadrants Series Authors","description":"\"\u003ci\u003eQ+1\u003c\/i\u003e is a bonus book included with the four-novel Quadrants Series. The center point in \u003ci\u003eQ+1\u003c\/i\u003e is, simply enough, the short story: an elastic vessel for fiction, able to accommodate narrative arcs, whether revealed in a chaptered micro-bildungsroman, as in Robert Ashley's 'The Hardware Days Almost Gone'; manifested as computer instructions in Sumner Carnahan's 'Authentic Incarnation'; told through the unreliable dual-point-of-view narrator in Thomas Frick's 'Troubadour Awakening' or, with a flash of epiphany, as in L. K. Larsen's 'Leave a Message.' By pushing the short story in these ways, the works demonstrate the realization of Frick's narrator when he quotes literary theorist George Steiner: 'Difficulty is the armature of meaning.' Certainly, many of the fourteen pieces in \u003ci\u003eQ+1\u003c\/i\u003e--and the novels they accompany--push story to its limits. And still the center holds\"--Julia Goldberg","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104197624048,"sku":"9780936050430","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780936050430_p0.jpg?v=1763862409","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780936050430","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}