{"product_id":"9781564788351","title":"Peru","description":"Arguably Gordon Lish's masterpiece, \u003ci\u003ePeru\u003c\/i\u003e 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).\u003ci\u003e Peru\u003c\/i\u003e'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, \u003ci\u003ePeru\u003c\/i\u003e is a compendium of unnerving observations about memory, violence, obsession, and the potential horror behind the facade of an ordinary life.","brand":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149934903536,"sku":"9781564788351","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781564788351_p0.jpg?v=1763770805","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781564788351","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}