{"product_id":"9781934137475","title":"The Odditorium","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e “Title to Pick Up Now”\u0026amp;Oprah.com Book of the Week\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Best Stories Collection of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Emotionally rich.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ambitious, lush and even thrilling.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ripping good yarns.” —\u003cb\u003eMinneapolis \u003ci\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The stories in this strange and original collection bend genres—horror, mystery, Western—into wondrous new shapes.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn each of these eight lyrical and baroque tales, Melissa Pritchard transports readers into spine-tingling milieus that range from the astounding realm of Robert LeRoy Ripley’s “odditoriums” to the courtyard where Edgar Allan Poe once played as a child. Whether she is setting the famed figures of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, including Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull, against the real, genocidal history of the American West, or contrasting the luxurious hotel where British writer Somerset Maugham stayed with the modern-day brothels of India, her stories illuminate the many ways history and architecture exert powerful forces upon human consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelissa Pritchard\u003c\/b\u003e is a Flannery O’Connor, Janet Heidinger Kafka, and Carl Sandburg award-winning author whose previous short fiction collections were \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and Editors’ Choice selections. She lives in Arizona.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bellevue Literary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174211535088,"sku":"9781934137475","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934137475_p0.jpg?v=1763641991","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934137475","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}