{"product_id":"9781590173473","title":"A Posthumous Confession","description":"\u003cp\u003eTermeer, the narrator of \u003ci\u003eA Posthumous Confession\u003c\/i\u003e, is a twisted man and a troubled one. The emotionally stunted son of a cold, forbidding, and hypocritical father, Termeer has only succeeded in living up to his parents’ low expectations when, to his own and others’ astonishment, he finds himself wooing a beautiful and gifted woman—a woman whose love he wins. But instead of finding happiness in marriage, Termeer discovers it to be a new source of self-hatred, hatred that he turns upon his wife and child. And when he becomes caught up in an affair with a woman as demanding as his own self-loathing, he is driven to murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the self, and how does it evade or come to terms with itself? What can make it go permanently, lethally wrong? Marcellus Emants’s grueling and gripping novel—a late-nineteenth-century tour de force of psychological penetration—is a lacerating exposition of the logic of identity that looks backward to Dostoyevsky, forward to Simenon, and beyond to the confessional literature, whether fiction or fact, of our own day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036645605616,"sku":"9781590173473","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590173473_p0.jpg?v=1763801902","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590173473","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}