{"product_id":"9781625579782","title":"After Paradise","description":"\u003cbr\u003eFiction. \"An exquisite novel in the classic mode: love, tragedy, small-town America. AFTER PARADISE takes its rightful place alongside \u003cem\u003eMrs. Bridge, Winesburg, Ohio\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Stories of John Cheever\u003c\/em\u003e in shining a light on American joy and American sorrow.\"—T. C. Boyle \u003cp\u003e\"From the very first page, as a traveling carnival sets up in the small Maine town of Scoggin, you know you are in for something exceptional. Robley Wilson has a rare gift for capturing place and creating achingly real characters: David, on the cusp of adulthood, lit with desire and chafing against a cruel father; Kate, his clever, strong willed almost-girlfriend; and Sharita, an erotic dancer with a dark past, whose arrival sets in motion an explosive chain of events. Set at a time when the memory of WWII was fresh, the novel is both a vivid portrait of the past and a timeless look at relations between men and women.\"—Dawn Raffel \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A tale of two couples, David and Kate, high school students, and Sherrie and Frank, an exotic dancer and her carnival barker, Robley Wilson's AFTER PARADISE is a beautifully observed, passionate, and elegant unveiling of small-town life in all its claustrophobic intensity. A traveling carnival arrives in Scoggin, Maine, after World War II, setting in motion a battle between sensuality and puritanism, love and punishment that moves inevitably toward a tragic conclusion. Evocative of New England lives described long ago by Hawthorne and Wharton, and more recently by Cheever and Updike, AFTER PARADISE is a brilliantly compelling exploration, engaging from start to finish.\"—David Hellerstein\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055737487600,"sku":"9781625579782","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781625579782_p0.jpg?v=1763863894","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781625579782","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}