{"product_id":"9781453515136","title":"EVANESCENCE: STORIES 1950's - 2000","description":"Borenstein's twelve stories are literary timepieces she fashioned  \u003cbr\u003eduring fi fty years of writing fi ction. Favoring the decades as  \u003cbr\u003enesting dolls for her interplay of imagination with memory,  \u003cbr\u003eshe evokes the ever-shifting spirit of the times through the lives of  \u003cbr\u003eher characters, creatures of days swift-fl owing from time past through  \u003cbr\u003ethe evanescent present toward the somedays of an ever-receding  \u003cbr\u003ehorizon. Shadows of a growing distance from youthful dreams of  \u003cbr\u003einvincibility lengthen across \"the American century\" as it grows  \u003cbr\u003eolder. Her Afterword celebrates the short story as self-replenishing  \u003cbr\u003efor readers journeying on from a once-upon-a-time moment in  \u003cbr\u003eAmerican history.","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124318781680,"sku":"9781453515136","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453515136_p0.jpg?v=1763849957","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453515136","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}