{"product_id":"9781742982458","title":"The Poet: A Novella","description":"'The Poet' is a tale of obsession, art, and the thresholds between day and night. Manfred is a nondescript insurance clerk, inflexibly honest and imbued with a profound sense of order. He is also a prolific poet, but has never tried to publish - until now. The novella traces the events and experiences that befall Manfred in the wake of a single moment's carelessness, a mistake that will change his life. He enters a maze he must negotiate, between action and paralysis, inspiration and despair, guilt - and the phantom, love. We encounter an eccentric stranger bent on a terrible mission, the publisher of a deceitful new author, and the city that forms a living, shifting backdrop to the interior drama, as Manfred struggles with his predicament, his muse, and the labyrinth of his implacable honesty. It is a journey from common daylight into a darkness flickering with both hope and oblivion; a journey across the fragile web of what we understand as sanity.","brand":"Hybrid Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182192804080,"sku":"9781742982458","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781742982458_p0.jpg?v=1763703634","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781742982458","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}