{"product_id":"9781429930666","title":"The Ghost in Love: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I envy anyone who has yet to enjoy the sexy, eerie, and addictive novels of Jonathan Carroll. They are delicious treats—with devilish tricks inside them.\"—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeil Gaiman has written: \"Jonathan Carroll has the magic. He'll lend you his eyes, and you'll never see the world in quite the same way ever again.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the luminous and marvelously inventive world of \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost in Love\u003c\/i\u003e. A man falls in the snow, hits his head on a curb, and dies. But something strange occurs: the man \u003ci\u003edoesn't \u003c\/i\u003edie, and the ghost that's been sent to take his soul to the afterlife is flabbergasted. Going immediately to its boss, the ghost asks, what should I do now? The boss says, we don't know how this happened but we're working on it. We want you to stay with this man to help us figure out what's going on. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ghost agrees unhappily; it is a ghost, not a nursemaid. But a funny thing happens—the ghost falls madly in love with the man's girlfriend, and things naturally get complicated. Soon afterward, the man discovers he did not die when he was \"supposed\" to because for the first time in their history, human beings have decided to take their fates back from the gods. It's a wonderful change, but one that comes at a price. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ghost in Love \u003c\/i\u003eis about what happens to us when we discover that we have become the masters of our own fate. No excuses, no outside forces or gods to blame—the responsibility is all our own. It's also about love, ghosts that happen to be gourmet cooks, talking dogs, and picnicking in the rain with yourself at twenty different ages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen King has said that \"Jonathan Carroll is as scary as Hitchcock, when he isn't being as funny as Jim Carrey.\" Jonathan Lethem sees Carroll as the \"master of sunlit surrealism.\" However one regards this beguiling original, two facts are indisputable: It's tough being a ghost on an empty stomach. And \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost in Love \u003c\/i\u003eis a triumphant return.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122514313456,"sku":"9781429930666","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429930666_p0.jpg?v=1763748984","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429930666","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}