{"product_id":"9781564788023","title":"Peru","description":"Arguably Gordon Lish's masterpiece, Peru begins with its narrator announcing, \"There is nothing which I will not tell you if I can think of it.\" Gradually, the story of a dark childhood secret-real or imagined-unfolds: in 1940, six-year-old Gordon murdered his harelipped rival, Steven Adinoff, in a Long Island sandbox... (unless he didn't). Peru's narrator weaves together strands of disconnected, mesmerizing trivia, resurrecting memories of the mundane suburban childhood that spawned a killing: the sense of tedium on an endless summer day; the squishy sounds of a hoe digging into flesh. Ambiguous, complex, inventive, and subversively comic, Peru is a compendium of unnerving observations about memory, violence, obsession, and the potential horror behind the facade of an ordinary life.","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050204545264,"sku":"9781564788023","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781564788023_p0.jpg?v=1763758126","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781564788023","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}