{"product_id":"9783736809864","title":"Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton","description":"I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you know Starkfield, Massachusetts, you know the post-office. If you know the post-office you must have seen Ethan Frome drive up to it, drop the reins on his hollow-backed bay and drag himself across the brick pavement to the white colonnade: and you must have asked who he was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was there that, several years ago, I saw him for the first time; and the sight pulled me up sharp. Even then he was the most striking figure in Starkfield, though he was but the ruin of a man. It was not so much his great height that marked him, for the \"natives\" were easily singled out by their lank longitude from the stockier foreign breed: it was the careless powerful look he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain. There was something bleak and unapproachable in his face, and he was so stiffened and grizzled that I took him for an old man and was surprised to hear that he was not more than fifty-two. I had this from Harmon Gow, who had driven the stage from Bettsbridge to Starkfield in pre-trolley days and knew the chronicle of all the families on his line.","brand":"BookRix","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135036702960,"sku":"9783736809864","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783736809864_p0.jpg?v=1763675139","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783736809864","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}