{"product_id":"9780989512503","title":"Tales from the Eternal Cafe","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTales from the Eternal Cafe,\u003c\/i\u003e author Janet Hamill’s debut short story collection, offers a thrilling, unwinding trail of tales that excite and mystify; drift then deliver a powerful punch that readers will devour. Like Karen Russell, George Saunders, José Luis Borges and Isabel Allende, Janet Hamill’s writing lures readers willingly into a labyrinth of surprise and suspense, with humor lurking just on the other side of pathos; a tear just moments away from bright, well-deserved laughter.\u003cp\u003eThe seventeen crisp stories included in \u003ci\u003eTales from the Eternal Cafe\u003c\/i\u003e offer a plethora of fascinating characters and scenarios: a brief memoir from Baudelaire’s publisher; a letter from a writer who knows he is going mad; an exasperated Italian film director unable to inspire Europe’s most famous actor during the shooting of a brothel scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book includes an introduction by the author’s lifelong friend, singer-songwriter-poet-author Patti Smith, whose book Just Kids, received the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2010.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Three Rooms Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47023431319792,"sku":"9780989512503","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780989512503_p0.jpg?v=1763884742","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780989512503","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}