{"product_id":"a-posthumous-confession-9781590173473","title":"A Posthumous Confession","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTermeer, the narrator of \u003ci\u003eA Posthumous Confession\u003c\/i\u003e, is a twisted man and a troubled one. The emotionally stunted son of a cold, forbidding, and hypocritical father, Termeer has only succeeded in living up to his parents' low expectations when, to his own and others' astonishment, he finds himself wooing a beautiful and gifted woman--a woman whose love he wins. But instead of finding happiness in marriage, Termeer discovers it to be a new source of self-hatred, hatred that he turns upon his wife and child. And when he becomes caught up in an affair with a woman as demanding as his own self-loathing, he is driven to murder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat is the self, and how does it evade or come to terms with itself? What can make it go permanently, lethally wrong? Marcellus Emants's grueling and gripping novel--a late-nineteenth-century tour de force of psychological penetration--is a lacerating exposition of the logic of identity that looks backward to Dostoyevsky, forward to Simenon, and beyond to the confessional literature, whether fiction or fact, of our own day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590173473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.33w x 0.44d","brand":"Marcellus Emants","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43251428753589,"sku":"9781590173473","price":11.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_24f3b640-b4bc-4aa7-a1fb-d8bc59dbc924.jpg?v=1699372682","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-posthumous-confession-9781590173473","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}