{"product_id":"9781771483834","title":"Shadows in Summerland","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoston, 1859. A nation on the brink of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConfidence men prowl the streets for fresh marks. Mediums swindle the newly bereaved. Into this world of illusion and intrigue comes William Mumler, a manipulating mastermind and criminal jeweler. Mumler hopes to make his fortune by photographing spirits for Boston's elite. The key to his venture: a shy girl named Hannah who sees and manifests the dead and washes up on Boston's harbor along with her strange, intense mother, Claudette.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Mumler and Hannah's fame grows throughout Boston, everybody wants a piece: Bill Christian, a brothel tough; Algernon Child, a drunken rival; Fanny A. Conant, a sly suffragette; and William Guay, a religious fanatic. These rogues among a host of others, including the great spirit rapper Kate Fox, form powerful bonds with the spirit photographers, one of which will end in murder. Mumler's first and last mistake: the dead cannot be made to heel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoughly based on the real-life story of spirit photographer William H. Mumler and his clairvoyant wife, Hannah Mumler, \u003ci\u003eShadows in Summerland \u003c\/i\u003eimmerses the reader in a shifting world of light and shade where nothing is quite what it seems at first glance. A soaring and resplendently Gothic novel spanning three decades, it is as much an homage to the Golden Age ghost stories of Edith Wharton and Henry James as it is a companion to the revisionist historical epics of Peter Carey and Sarah Waters, with a little steampunk all its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Noticed Everything\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eAdrian Van Young\u003c\/b\u003e's first book of fiction, won Black Lawrence Press' 2011 St. Lawrence Book Award and was published in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ChiZine Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050462494960,"sku":"9781771483834","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/384557239.jpg?v=1758838971","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781771483834","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}