{"product_id":"9781931982443","title":"Playing Out the String","description":"\u003cbr\u003eFiction. Robert McCabe is a professor of film at a Tennessee university. Until this semester he's passed his time trading film quotes with another professor to make a game of current events. Then a woman accuses him of exposing himself in the university library over the summer, and the quotes take on a new seriousness, starting with Ernest Borgnine's \"playing out the string\" from his movie The Wild Bunch. Borgnine says this directly to indicate a fatalistic will to continue despite overwhelming odds. And sure enough, he and his friends are killed by gunfire. Amid mounting accusations will McCabe end in a similar spiral?","brand":"Livingston Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49868881690864,"sku":"9781931982443","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781931982443","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}