{"product_id":"9781772140439","title":"I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the City of Hamilton book award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt times comic, tender, dark, and arrestingly bizarre, Gary Barwin’s latest fiction collection marvels at the strangeness, charm, and beauty that is contemporary life in the quantum world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRanging from short story to postcard fiction, Barwin’s stories are luminous, hilarious, and surprising. A billionaire falls in love with a kitchen appliance, a couple share a pair of legs, a pipeline-size hair is given the Nobel Prize only so that it can be taken away, a father remembers with tenderness the radiant happiness of his teenage child, trapped inside his body. As the \u003ci\u003eUtne Reader\u003c\/i\u003e said of his last collection, “what makes them so compelling is Barwin’s balance of melancholy with wide-eyed wonder.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePraise for I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“There’s so much to love in \u003ci\u003eI, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457\u003c\/i\u003e. Each story is a portal into a wondrous and mysterious parallel world. Like the great U.S. poet, Russell Edson, Gary Barwin’s work inhabits a transcendent country, one in which surprise, delight, discovery, and, above all, gleeful imagination rule the day.” (M.A.C. Farrant, author of \u003ci\u003eThe World Afloat\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDarwin Alone in the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“These stories are as unexpected as they are beautiful. Each one will have you seeing the world in a slightly different way.” (Andrew Kaufman, author of \u003ci\u003eAll My Best Friends are Superheroes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBorn Weird\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anvil Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135291113712,"sku":"9781772140439","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781772140439_p0.jpg?v=1763737709","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781772140439","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}