{"product_id":"quiet-life","title":"Quiet Life","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eQuiet Life\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eKenzaburo Oe\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780802135469\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGrove Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1997\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eTrade Paperback Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e256\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eA Quiet Life is an uncanny blend of the real with the imagined, of memoir with fiction. A Quiet Life is narrated by Ma-chan, a twenty-year-old woman. Her father is a famous and fascinating novelist; her older brother, though severely brain damaged, possesses an almost magical gift for musical composition; and her mother's life is devoted to the care of them both. Ma-chan and her younger brother find themselves emotionally on the outside of this oddly constructed nuclear family. But when her father accepts a visiting professorship from an American university, Ma-chan finds herself suddenly the head of the household and at the center of family relationships that she must begin to redefine.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Quiet Life | Kenzaburo Oe | Paperback | 9780802135469 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1636101","offer_id":50705104240898,"sku":"1636101","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61by28r_glL.jpg?v=1791645150","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/quiet-life","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}