{"product_id":"a-conference-of-victims-a-novella-9781640095960","title":"A Conference of Victims: A Novella","description":"\u003cb\u003eFirst published in 1966, \u003ci\u003eA Conference of Victims\u003c\/i\u003e charts the corrosive power of guilt and loneliness, showing how one terrible act can possess a family\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHal O. Costigan, candidate for Congress, is the kind of man people envy. He has a loving wife, a supportive family, and a devoted mother. Friendly, intelligent, successful, he is a man on the rise--until he is caught in an affair with a high school girl and commits suicide. On election day the reporters have forgotten him, and the radio doesn't mention his name. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAround Hal's hometown, however, a handful of people continue lives that will be forever haunted by his memory. Naomi who is thrown nearly out of her mind by her brother's suicide questions even her own reason for living. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGina Berriault's work as a storywriter of great psychological empathy and extraordinary elegance and subtlety was celebrated widely at the end of her life and, with this reissue of one of her more celebrated short novels, her work can be discovered by a new generation of readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Counterpoint LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781640095960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Gina Berriault","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42769767497909,"sku":"9781640095960","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7f6a3e41-3c0b-4b03-9282-d6b01d083985.jpg?v=1678837271","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-conference-of-victims-a-novella-9781640095960","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}