{"product_id":"exiles-in-the-garden-9780547336015","title":"Exiles in the Garden","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A master American novelist.\" --\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"One of the most astute writers of American fiction\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) delivers the resonant story of Alec Malone, a senator's son who rejects the family business of politics for a career as a newspaper photographer. Alec and his Swiss wife, Lucia, settle in Georgetown next door to a couple whose  migr  gatherings in their garden remind Lucia of all the things Americans are not. She leaves Alec as his career founders on his refusal of an assignment to cover the Vietnam War -- a slyly subversive fictional choice from Ward Just, who was himself a renowned war correspondent. At the center of the novel is Alec's unforeseen reckoning with Lucia's long-absent father, Andre Duran, a Czech living out the end of his life in a hostel called Goya House. Duran's career as an adventurer and antifascist commando is everything Alec's is not. The encounter forces Alec to confront just how different a life where things -- \"terrible things, terrible things\" -- happen is from a life where nothing much happens at all. \u003cbr\u003e Once again, \"Ward Just writes the kind of books they say no one writes anymore: smart, well-crafted narratives -- wise to the ways of the world -- that use fiction to show us how we live\" (Joseph Kanon, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780547336015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.32h x 5.84w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/18\/2010 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ward Just","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36638695850140,"sku":"9780547336015","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0f542b86-b0e4-422d-8e90-ead4b5ae96da.jpg?v=1603847950","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/exiles-in-the-garden-9780547336015","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}