{"product_id":"9781620400562","title":"Constance: A Novel","description":"The cool, beautiful Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan in the early 1960s. At a literary party, she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Sidney is a single father with a poor marital record, and he pursues Constance with relentless determination. Eventually she surrenders, accepts his marriage proposal, and moves, with some dread, into his dark, book-filled apartment.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eShe can't settle in. She's tortured by memories of the bitterly unhappy childhood she spent with her father in a dilapidated house upstate. When she learns devastating new information about that past, Constance's fragile psyche suffers a profound shock. Her marriage, already tottering, threatens to collapse completely. Frightened, desperate and alone, Constance makes a disastrous decision, then looks on as her world rapidly falls apart. Her only consolation, as the city swelters in an interminable heat wave, is the friendship of Sidney's son Howard, a strange, delicate child, not unlike Constance herself.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003estory of a marriage in crisis and a family haunted by trauma, \u003ci\u003eConstance \u003c\/i\u003eis also a tale of resilience and loyalty, and of the  moral inspiration that can lead even the most lost of souls back to the light.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177567928560,"sku":"9781620400562","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781620400562_p0.jpg?v=1763857421","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781620400562","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}