{"product_id":"9780989302395","title":"A Thousand Distant Radios","description":"\u003cp\u003ePainting modern America in saturated colors, this collection of short stories explores the passions and compulsions at the core of our national identity: those qualities that propel us forward or hold us back; that make us strangers to ourselves and others even while we pine for connection; the ways we cope with the inescapable enormity of our nation's geography. A marlin swims circles in a luminous backyard pool; a small-town surgeon broods from the Olympus of his hilltop house, watched all the while by his neighbors below; a knife salesman plies blades of mythic sharpness while crisscrossing a crazed North American landscape like a mad Paul Bunyan; a young man in rural Arkansas nestles into a satellite dish; and a grandfather’s body lies in state amid Annie Oakley’s last buffalo kill, General Patton’s Persian rug, and countless other oddments of a legendary America. Phenomenally imaginative, skewed, and hyperbolical, these stories are honed to cut through the blur of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atelier26 Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021149815024,"sku":"9780989302395","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780989302395_p0.jpg?v=1763902728","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780989302395","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}