{"product_id":"9781937854812","title":"The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men","description":"“The men in this collection seethe with something close to rage or desperation or both while remaining recognizably and sympathetically human, and that rare combination makes the experience of reading \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men\u003c\/i\u003e feel as dangerous as a knife fight.”\u003cbr\u003e            -Michael Knight, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Typist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Woman can learn more from these stories than from thousands of issues of \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e            -Ellen Gilchrist, author of \u003ci\u003eVictory Over Japan\u003c\/i\u003e and Nora Jane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“To read \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men\u003c\/i\u003e is to know the power and sweep of what short stories can do.  These full-bodied, full-throated stories show us men in trouble and men in love, and they show us how those are often one in the same.  Prince is a profoundly gifted and muscular writer, a writer who understands the intimacy of violence and the violence of intimacy, a writer you read again and again and again.” \u003cbr\u003e            –Bret Anthony Johnston, author of \u003ci\u003eCorpus Christi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These stories scared the hell out of me.”\u003cbr\u003e            -Brad Watson, author of \u003ci\u003eAliens in the Prime of their Lives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dzanc Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132094169328,"sku":"9781937854812","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781937854812_p0.jpg?v=1769897613","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937854812","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}