{"product_id":"gates-of-eden-9780061684883","title":"Gates of Eden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A distinctive voice and an offbeat worldview...All of these stories take place in Coen Brothers Land, a parallel universe similar to our own--except it's weirder, funnier, and better edited.\" -- \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe fiction debut of one of the most distinctive filmmakers working today, Ethan Coen.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eGates of Eden\u003c\/em\u003e, Ethan Coen exhibits on the printed page the striking, twisted, yet devastatingly on-target vision of modern American life familiar from his movies. The world within the world we live in comes alive in fourteen brazenly original tragicomic short stories--from the Midwest mob war that fizzles due to the principals' ineptness to the trials of a deaf private eye with a blind client to a fugitive's heartbreaking explanation for having beheaded his wife, alarming in that it almost makes sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780061684883\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.26w x 0.66d","brand":"Ethan Coen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42916737646773,"sku":"9780061684883","price":12.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_25902783-e648-4733-8bab-8beb054363f8.jpg?v=1687269788","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/gates-of-eden-9780061684883","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}