{"product_id":"venus-in-the-afternoon","title":"Venus in the Afternoon","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eVenus in the Afternoon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eTehila Lieberman\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781574414660\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of North Texas Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2012\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\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\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2012.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe short stories in this rich debut collection embody in their complexity Alice Munro's description of the short story as \"a world seen in a quick, glancing light.\" In chiseled and elegant prose, Lieberman conjures wildly disparate worlds. A middle aged window washer, mourning his wife and an estranged daughter, begins to grow attached to a young woman he sees through the glass; a writer, against his better judgment, pursues a new relationship with a femme fatale who years ago broke his heart; and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor struggles with the delicate decision of whether to finally ask her aging mother how it was that she survived. It is all here--the exigencies of love, of lust, the raw, unlit terrain of grief. Whether plumbing the darker depths or casting a humorous eye on a doomed relationship, these stories never force a choice between tragedy and redemption, but rather invite us into the private moments and crucibles of lives as hungry and flawed as our own.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of North Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Venus in the Afternoon | Tehila Lieberman | Paperback | 9781574414660 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1662893","offer_id":50784646627586,"sku":"1662893","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61AWfoAuFbL.jpg?v=1792239449","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/venus-in-the-afternoon","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}