{"product_id":"fools-paradise-9781564784223","title":"Fool's Paradise","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarriage kills love. That's why people get married. The unmarried and unemployed narrator of A Fool's Paradise is seeing a married man and must, because of her social security, apply and interview for jobs she does not want. Her life is founded on unsustainable contradictions. As her lover considers recommitting to his wife and as her poverty becomes increasingly dire, she confronts the temptations and contradictions of conventional success, but she is also overcome by jealousy and dissatisfaction. She travels to Russia and spies on her lover's wife. She takes a job that she hates. This precise and intensely personal novel describes the narrator's growing sense that freedom becomes, itself, a kind of routine, and shows her burgeoning desire to break out of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781564784223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.84h x 5.58w x 0.42d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/22\/2006 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2006 pg. 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/04\/2006 pg. 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anita Konkka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42784428163253,"sku":"9781564784223","price":11.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7f0113ef-8a49-488d-bf31-64438267c7f0.jpg?v=1680015553","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/fools-paradise-9781564784223","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}