{"product_id":"9781940450025","title":"One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucy Corin's \"eye popping, enlightening read\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), now in paperback\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of Lucy Corin’s dazzling collection are one hundred apocalypses: visions of loss and destruction, vexation and crisis, revelation and revolution, sometimes only a few lines long. In these haunting and wickedly funny stories, an apocalypse might come in the form of the end of a relationship or the end of the world, but they all expose the tricky landscape of our longing for a clean slate. In three longer stories, contemporary American life is playfully, if disturbingly, distorted: the rite of passage for adolescent girls involves choosing the madman who will accompany them into adulthood; California burns to the ground while, on the east coast, life carries on; and a soldier returns home broke from war to encounter a witch who extends a dangerous offer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once mournful and explosively energetic, \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses\u003c\/i\u003e is \"deeply rooted in the politics and upheaval of our times\" (\u003ci\u003eLambda Literary\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McSweeney's Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044227530992,"sku":"9781940450025","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940450025_p0.jpg?v=1772805979","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940450025","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}