{"product_id":"the-public-burning","title":"The Public Burning","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Public Burning\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRobert Coover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780802135278\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGrove Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1998\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition (first thus)\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e544\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA controversial best-seller in 1977, \u003cem\u003eThe Public Burning\u003c\/em\u003e has since emerged as one of the most influential novels of our time. The first major work of contemporary fiction ever to use historical figures as characters, the novel reimagines the three fateful days in 1953 that culminated with the execution of alleged atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Vice-President Richard Nixon - the voraciously ambitious bad boy of the Eisenhower regime - is the dominant narrator in an enormous cast that includes Betty Crocker, Joe McCarthy, the Marx Brothers, Walter Winchell, Uncle Sam, his adversary The Phantom, and \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e magazine incarnated as the National Poet Laureate. All of these and thousands more converge in Times Square for the carnivalesque auto-da-fé at which the Rosenbergs are put to death. And not a person present escapes implication in Cold War America's ruthless \"public burning.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"The Public Burning | Robert Coover | Paperback | 9780802135278 | New | Fiction 1712808","offer_id":50838062661890,"sku":"1712808","price":37.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71n1QhcZ1DL.jpg?v=1792663813","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-public-burning","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}