{"product_id":"9781453250365","title":"The Half You Don't Know: Selected Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFunny, moving short fiction from the author of \u003ci\u003eSomeday This Pain Will Be Useful to You\u003c\/i\u003e: “[An] elegantly acute and mysteriously beguiling writer” (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   This collection of stories represents the best of Peter Cameron’s work from the 1980s, much of it first published in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003e Yale Review. \u003c\/i\u003eIn these richly layered stories, sophisticated urbanites and lonely drifters alike face down the sad limitations to their dreams. Highlights include the O. Henry Award–winning stories “Excerpts from Swan Lake,” about a young gay couple from New York coping with suburban suspicion, and “Homework,” about a boy yearning for the order of the classroom after  cutting school to deal with the death of his dog.","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140590911728,"sku":"9781453250365","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453250365_p0.jpg?v=1763849385","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453250365","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}