{"product_id":"9781480459847","title":"Swann","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award Winner: A “funny, poignant, surprising” (Margaret Atwood) literary detective story centering around a murdered poet.\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cbr\u003eWho is Mary Swann?\u003cbr\u003e In this novel of a writer’s revenge, an uneducated farmer’s wife delivers a paper bag filled with scraps of her poems to the publisher of a small press. Hours later, she’s dead, murdered by her husband. Fifteen years on, her book of one hundred twenty-five poems—Mary Swann’s sole claim to fame—is discovered by an American academic. And a literary odyssey begins.\u003cbr\u003e Four narrators—Sarah Maloney, a feminist writer; Frederic Cruzzi, an editor; Morton Jimroy, a biographer; and Rose Hindmarch, Mary’s only friend—all have a stake in the deceased poet’s work. Their chorus of voicesopens a fascinating window on what constitutes genius. As the four descend into a quagmire of ego, jealousy, and backstabbing, Mary Swann comes back to life—in the minds and hearts of those who love and hate her most. Full of mischief,  \u003ci\u003eSwann \u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about life, death, and the ideas that live on after us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Road Integrated Media LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054795342064,"sku":"9781480459847","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480459847_p0.jpg?v=1763619605","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480459847","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}