{"product_id":"9781453550199","title":"As Marilyn Lay Dying: Stories of the Primal Scene","description":"Strange, disturbing stories, full of that lusting madness  \u003cbr\u003ewhich, at times, seems as attendant as our own  \u003cbr\u003eshadows. Stories full of tenderness and love, as well, but  \u003cbr\u003elove that veers in unexpected directions. Here conventional  \u003cbr\u003eframes of understanding can bend or crack apart, allowing  \u003cbr\u003efiction to interfuse with a mercurial reality, flinging  \u003cbr\u003eordinary appearances into disarray. Even fairy tales  \u003cbr\u003eoccasionally intrude upon the commonplace, to play havoc  \u003cbr\u003ewith familiar surfaces. Dreams can become preemptive.  \u003cbr\u003eRichard Geha explores the frightening, often bizarre,  \u003cbr\u003epassions that disrupt mundane lives; he ventures into those  \u003cbr\u003eenigmatic spheres that lie as close at hand as our dreams,  \u003cbr\u003eas the haunting ghosts of memory, as that face in the mirror  \u003cbr\u003eof \"the other.\" The theme of the primal scene, a child's  \u003cbr\u003ebewildered understanding of adult passion, resonates  \u003cbr\u003ealluringly through all these stories. These elegant tales are  \u003cbr\u003eintelligent, complex, poetic and frequently darkly humorous.  \u003cbr\u003eIn them, readers will certainly feel the diverse parts of  \u003cbr\u003ethemselves boldly, firmly, sometimes rudely, embraced.","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175678361840,"sku":"9781453550199","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453550199_p0.jpg?v=1763850405","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453550199","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}