{"product_id":"9781566893725","title":"It Will End with Us","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNewsweek's Favorite Books of 2014\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for Sam Savage:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the O. Henry Prize for \"Cigarettes\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sam Savage manages to be both artful and literal-minded in this faux autobiographical tale of childhood and a mother afflicted and finally driven mad by her wish for artistic success. Savage writes knowingly about the uncertainties of childhood memory, but creates a convincing world of sibling combat and adult pretension. A wonderful, absorbing novel.” \u003cb\u003e—C. Michael Curtis, Fiction Editor, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If the world—all its hysteric noise—was muted for just one minute, Sam Savage is what you might be fortunate enough to hear. His elegant laconism, his leaps across the self-evident, his soft aplomb, and the rarified air he bestows upon the mundane make him the only American writer worthy of the label the true eccentric.\" \u003cb\u003e—Valeria Luiselli\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eIt Will End With Us\u003c\/i\u003e is Sam Savage’s latest deep dive into the mind and voice of a character, and his most personal work yet. Brick by textual brick, his narrator, Eve, builds a memorial to the mother who raised her, emotionally abandoned her, and shaped her in her own image. Eve’s memories summon a childhood in rural South Carolina, a decaying house on impoverished soil, and an insular society succumbing to the influences of a wider world. \u003ci\u003eIt Will End With Us\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of a place full of hummingbirds and wild irises, but also of frustration and grief. It is the story of a family tragedy, provoked by a mother’s stifled ambitions, and seized by the wide-open gaze of a child. Rarely has a novel so brief taken on so much, so powerfully.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSam Savage is the best-selling author of \u003ci\u003e Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan\u003cbr\u003eLowlife, The Cry of the Sloth, Glass, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Way of the Dog\u003c\/i\u003e , all from Coffee\u003cbr\u003eHouse Press. A finalist for the Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers\u003cbr\u003eAward, Savage holds a PhD in philosophy from Yale University and resides in\u003cbr\u003eMadison, Wisconsin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048527118576,"sku":"9781566893725","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566893725_p0.jpg?v=1763790258","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566893725","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}