{"product_id":"animal-spirit-stories-9780525565741","title":"Animal Spirit: Stories","description":"Centered in Rome but transporting us into worlds as varied and alluring as they are emotionally real, Francesca Marciano's stories paint landscapes that are populated--vividly, hauntingly--by animals: from violent seagulls and starlings circling the evening sky in exhilarating formation to magical snakes and a tiny dog on the side of a deserted road. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In unforgettable, cinematic frames, events unfold, especially in the lives of women. An affair ends painfully at a dinner table, an actress's past comes crashing down on her during an audition, an unhappy wife seeks respite in a historic palazzo sublet. Two starkly different couples imagine parenthood during a Greek island holiday and a young girl returns from rehab, deciding to set out anew with a traveling circus. A man in crisis draws his ex-lover deep into the New Mexico desert. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With spellbinding clarity, the six masterly stories in \u003ci\u003eAnimal Spirit \u003c\/i\u003einhabit the minds and hearts of Marciano's characters. They chronicle deeply human moments of realization and recognition, indelible instants of irrevocable change--epiphanies sometimes sparked by our connection with animals and the primal power they show us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525565741\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256","brand":"Francesca Marciano","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39816879997109,"sku":"9780525565741","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_33b9c01f-eca6-404d-9ea2-1e50ec7c02dc.jpg?v=1618927378","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/animal-spirit-stories-9780525565741","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}