{"product_id":"swann-9781480459847","title":"Swann","description":"Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel and shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Carol Shields's award-winning fourth novel is a literary detective story exploring the surprising afterlife of a murdered poet Who is Mary Swann? In this novel of a writer's revenge, an uneducated farmer's wife delivers a paper bag filled with scraps of her poems to the publisher of a small press. Hours later, she's dead, murdered by her husband. Fifteen years on, her book of one hundred twenty-five poems-Mary Swann's sole claim to fame-is discovered by an American academic. And a literary odyssey begins. Four narrators-Sarah Maloney, a feminist writer; Frederic Cruzzi, an editor; Morton Jimroy, a biographer; and Rose Hindmarch, Mary's only friend-all have a stake in the deceased poet's work. Their chorus of voicesopens a fascinating window on what constitutes genius. As the four descend into a quagmire of ego, jealousy, and backstabbing, Mary Swann comes back to life-in the minds and hearts of those who love and hate her most. Full of mischief, Swann is a novel about life, death, and the ideas that live on after us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Road Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/17\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781480459847\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.99d","brand":"Carol Shields","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36652797526172,"sku":"9781480459847","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_530299e7-0d09-4dfa-8a7f-f7d0b4da5c96.jpg?v=1603880516","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/swann-9781480459847","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}