{"product_id":"9781609402822","title":"A Stone for Plot Four: Or Mendez, a Quest","description":"Over sixty years ago, poet, playwright, and critic John Igo stumbled upon a curious reference to a vanished local literary legend. A brilliant former student at a San Antonio community college, forgotten by none who met him, had gone on to the famed Black Mountain College in the 1930s, and achieved his dream of becoming a staff writer for The New Yorker. And then he vanished. Coincidence and curiosity morphed into an obsession for Igo: Who was Mendez Marks? Why did he die so young, at the height of his swift carreer? A strange history of family secrets, including madness and suicide, emerged along the way. Igo calls his memoir of his sixty-year pursuit of Marks “a verbal example of a contained-space sculpture.”  It is a biography wrapped in a memoir wrapped in a psychological case study of a brilliant, original soul.","brand":"Wings Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135234195696,"sku":"9781609402822","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781609402822_p0.jpg?v=1763837315","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609402822","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}