{"product_id":"9781452417554","title":"Sacrifice and the Sweet Life: Short Stories, Vignettes \u0026 Poetry","description":"\"They had never felt the fall, never sensed their descent. They heard only a deafening rumble, and then there was darkness—only darkness and crushing weight…”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins a profound and disturbing collection of eight short stories, four poems and one vignette by award-winning author David A. Ross.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lonely and deranged sorcerer; a noon-time Bozo, a local television-star; observant and bewildered tourists; angry, drunken cock-fighters; obedient anarchists; a guilt-ridden engineer: each one experiences the curious juxtaposition of the two overriding ideas contained within the collection’s title, Sacrifice and the Sweet Life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 'NL Centrum', a drug-ruined anarchist proclaims, \"The world theater maintains drama and tension through the perpetuation of greed and injustice and so forth…\" In 'La Sorcière de Seillans', a driven sculptor is obsessed to \"explore the space within the stones\", and in 'In Search of the Perfect Former-Communist Beach Town', a malcontented traveler observes, \"Some of the locals are a bit surly, Sean, so let's try to overlook ungracious behavior. Just enjoy the shore, the rich red wine and the paprika.\" One thing is certain as Giuvanni, the lust-ridden Florentine hotel clerk, laments, \"In our world, sacrifice is unavoidable.\"","brand":"Open Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176248426736,"sku":"9781452417554","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781452417554_p0.jpg?v=1763842542","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781452417554","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}