{"product_id":"the-cottagers-9780393330205","title":"The Cottagers","description":"Cyrus Collingwood, age nineteen, suspects that he may be a genius without a calling. He is a year-round resident of East Sooke, Vancouver Island, and has a natural resentment for the summer cottagers who descend on its rocky beaches. When two vacationing American couples arrive--old friends with a complicated history--they become his obsession. Greg and Nicholas are engaged in an academic collaboration that looks more like competition; Samina and Laurel are old friends who have grown apart and developed a strange jealousy. Cyrus spies on the cottagers through their windows, then begins to insinuate himself into their lives. When one of the cottagers goes missing, no one will look at any of the others the same way again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Combining the eerie suspense of Patricia Highsmith and the literary fortitude of Ian McEwan, \u003cem\u003eThe Cottagers\u003c\/em\u003e is about the discrepancy between the lives we live and the versions of those lives that trail behind us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393330205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.60w x 0.77d","brand":"Marshall N. Klimasewiski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40039876919477,"sku":"9780393330205","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5a70225e-a529-4e47-9f93-438bbf807370.jpg?v=1621339625","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-cottagers-9780393330205","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}