{"product_id":"gryphon-new-and-selected-stories-9780307739520","title":"Gryphon: New and Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book from the winner of the PEN\/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and \"one of our most gifted writers\" (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy turns compassionate, gently humorous, and haunting, this collection--sixteen classics with seven new stories--proves William Maxwell's assertion that \"nobody can touch Charles Baxter in the field that he has carved out for himself.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether friends or strangers, the characters in these stories share a desire--sometimes muted and sometimes fierce--to break through the fragile glass of convention. In the title story, a substitute teacher walks into a new classroom, draws an outsized tree on the blackboard on a whim, and rewards her students by reading their fortunes using a Tarot deck. In each of the stories we see the delicate tension between what we want to believe and what we need to believe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A warmly disposed yet unsentimental chronicler of American lives ... Some [stories are] poignant and disturbing, and all of them highly readable.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307739520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.16w x 0.97d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2012 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/09\/2014 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Charles Baxter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44273721475253,"sku":"9780307739520","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e7d4d5c7-705a-46cf-81a2-2aa058ec1fd7.jpg?v=1718082190","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/gryphon-new-and-selected-stories-9780307739520","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}