{"product_id":"9781891241369","title":"Some Phantom\/No Time Flat: Two Novellas","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese paired novellas show a master writer developing some of his most emotional, vital explorations of America yet. In \u003ci\u003eSome Phantom\u003c\/i\u003e an unnamed woman arrives in a strange city, fleeing a violent relationship. She begins to explore the city and its inhabitants and takes a job teaching disturbed children, but she finds her own mental stability becoming more and more precarious. A marriage of \u003ci\u003eThe Turn of the Screw\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCarnival of Souls, Some Phantom\u003c\/i\u003e poses questions about the line between memory and madness, fantasy and abuse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese questions are further elaborated in \u003ci\u003eNo Time Flat,\u003c\/i\u003e which follows Wade, a boy living a somewhat isolated existence with his elderly parents on the American plains. Wade makes his way through a childhood marked by playground shootings and mysterious strangers before becoming a wanderer himself, inhabiting a sparse landscape of fleeting connections, lost children, and unformulated crimes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verse Chorus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050390569200,"sku":"9781891241369","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781891241369_p0.jpg?v=1763608795","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781891241369","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}