{"product_id":"9781619022089","title":"Orkney","description":"Following her wonderful debut, \u003ci\u003eThe Still Point,\u003c\/i\u003e Sackville returns with a strangely beautiful short novel about love and sex and obsession. A literature professor marries his prize student, a woman forty years his junior, and at her request he takes her to the say for their honeymoon. He is embarked on his life’s work, a book about enchantment-narratives in literature, most all of them involving strange girls and women, but soon finds himself distracted by his own enchantment for his new white-haired young wife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey travel to the Orkney Islands, the ancient Mesolithic and Neolithic site north of the Scottish coast, “the Seal Islands,” a barren place of extraordinary beauty. And as the days of their honeymoon pass his desire and his constant, yearning contemplation become his normality. His mysterious bride becomes his entire universe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe is consumed.","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135843123440,"sku":"9781619022089","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619022089_p0.jpg?v=1763853600","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619022089","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}