{"product_id":"9780956192806","title":"A Stick of Green Candy","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor this fifth volume in the \u003ci\u003eFour Corners Familiars\u003c\/i\u003e series, in which artists respond to literary classics, the young San Francisco artist Colter Jacobsen (born 1975) has chosen four absolute masterpieces of short fiction: Jane Bowles' “A Stick of Green Candy” and “Camp Cataract,” and Denton Welch's “The Trout Stream” and “Narcissus Bay.” Bowles (1917–1973) and Welch (1915–1948) share a perceptiveness and surgical lucidity for moods and surfaces that William Burroughs, a fan of both authors, remarked upon: “both writers are masters of the unforgettable phrase that no one else could have written… each has a very special way of seeing things.” Jacobsen, who has previously collaborated with the writers Bill Berkson and Kevin Killian, and whose paired drawings—one drawn from life, the other from memory—demonstrate a flair and desire for response and collaboration, adds to these stories his marginalia, chapter headings and paired drawings, making of the whole an enticing mesh of sympathies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Four Corners Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47023811035376,"sku":"9780956192806","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780956192806_p0.jpg?v=1763872685","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780956192806","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}