{"product_id":"the-green-man-9781590176160","title":"The Green Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe owner of a haunted country inn contends with death, fatherhood, romantic woes, and alcoholism in this humorous and \"rattling good ghost story\" from a Booker Prize-winning author (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, \"I honestly can't see why everybody who isn't a child, everybody who's theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn't spend all his time thinking about it. It's a pretty arresting thought.\" He also happens to own and run a country inn that is haunted. \u003ci\u003eThe Green Man\u003c\/i\u003e opens as Maurice's father drops dead (had he seen something in the room?) and continues as friends and family convene for the funeral. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Maurice's problems are many and increasing: How to deal with his own declining health? How to reach out to a teenage daughter who watches TV all the time? How to get his best friend's wife in the sack? How to find another drink? (And another.) And then there is always death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Green Man\u003c\/i\u003e is a ghost story that hits a live nerve, a very black comedy with an uncannily happy ending: in other words, Kingsley Amis at his best.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590176160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Kingsley Amis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43124461600949,"sku":"9781590176160","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_c0cc3aa3-99f3-4a92-815c-e588f51cb7ae.jpg?v=1694552558","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-green-man-9781590176160","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}