{"product_id":"9781555973780","title":"Pieces of Payne","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbert Goldbarth is \"a dazzling virtuoso who can break your heart\" (Joyce Carol Oates)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow is Eliza's divorce connected to the rise of twentieth-century quantum physics? Why does the steamy promise of \"a key unlocking a door at a cheap motel along I-35\" lead us to a consideration of \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e? What does one physician's fake appointment book have to do with Columbus, werewolves, and Fanny Burney's famously excruciating nineteenth-century mastectomy? Albert Goldbarth sets his story of love's daily pleasures and griefs upon a foundation of ever-branching footnotes—from the strange worlds of supermarket tabloids and the Legion of Super-Heroes to more contemplative forays into gender politics, Dickens scholarship, and medical anomalies. By taking us on this mind-bending journey, he shows us how our lives are both confused and empowered by the multilayered universe around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePieces of Payne\u003c\/i\u003e is the first novel by Goldbarth, a two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061524054256,"sku":"9781555973780","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555973780_p0.jpg?v=1763756204","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555973780","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}