{"product_id":"9781931982498","title":"The Master Tanner Heads West","description":"\u003cbr\u003eFiction. Oddly, the dark star of this darkly comic novel set in the late 1800s isn't the master tanner, but the tanner's wife, Dolly, a sensuous and level-headed woman who sees the West for what it is: a land of violence, yes; but also a land of blank deserts signifying opportunity. So while her husband gets his head trapped inside a dead buffalo's skull, Dolly maneuvers through a monomaniacal Slavic emigre acting as town sheriff, a photographer named Swing T whose \"spiritual journey\" masks murderous sadism, a one-eyed poetic smith, and a star-gazing gambler who puts out the smith's eye with a hole card in self-defense. With colorful characters and a compelling and surprising plot, Bamberger's first novel surely echoes our present age as much as it does our westward expansion.","brand":"Livingston Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49868846825712,"sku":"9781931982498","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781931982498","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}