{"product_id":"9781101971345","title":"The Lesson","description":"A Vintage Short \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Loring is a widow and chess master who makes her living giving chess lessons; her newest student, who might be a prodigy, bears a striking resemblance to her dead spouse. Has her chess champion husband found a final move beyond the grave?  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A chess fable from the wildly inventive, immensely talented author of \u003ci\u003eA Cure for Suicide \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Silence Once Begun\u003c\/i\u003e, “The Lesson” is a surprising, poignant, macabre tale of games, children, and the unknowability of the beyond. Channeling the chess masterpieces of Nabokov and Stefan Zweig, Jesse Ball’s newest is a fabulous and entertaining novella that astonishes from first move to last.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An eBook short.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077347098864,"sku":"9781101971345","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101971345_p0.jpg?v=1763690101","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101971345","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}