{"product_id":"the-fortress-a-love-story-9780062459015","title":"The Fortress: A Love Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe critically acclaimed, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eFalling Through the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAngelology \u003c\/em\u003ereturns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in France. \u003cem\u003eThe Fortress\u003c\/em\u003e is Peter Mayle meets \u003cem\u003eEat, Pray, Love\u003c\/em\u003e, a gorgeously written account of one woman's journey to the other side of the romantic fairytale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"If I had been another woman, I might have been skeptical. But I wasn't another woman. I was a woman ready to be swept away. I was a woman ready for her story to begin. As a writer, story was all that mattered. Rising action, dramatic complication, heroes and villains and dark plots. I believed I was the author of my life, that I controlled the narration.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom their first kiss, twenty-seven-year-old writer Danielle Trussoni is spellbound by a novelist from Bulgaria. The two share a love of jazz and books and travel, passions that intensify their whirlwind romance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEight years later, hopeful to renew their marriage, Danielle and her husband move to the south of France, to a picturesque medieval village in the Languedoc. It is here, in a haunted stone fortress built by the Knights Templar, that she comes to understand the dark, subterranean forces that have been following her all along. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Danielle and her husband eventually part, Danielle's time in the fortress brings precious wisdom about life and love that she could not have learned otherwise. Ultimately, she finds the strength to overcome her illusions, and start again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn incisive look at romantic love, \u003cem\u003eThe Fortress\u003c\/em\u003e is one woman's fight to understand the complexities of her own heart, told by one of the best writers of her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dey Street Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/27\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062459015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.80d","brand":"Danielle Trussoni","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43059663208629,"sku":"9780062459015","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8ccb27f7-3981-45c9-9a01-d50b5e41b988.jpg?v=1690296613","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-fortress-a-love-story-9780062459015","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}