{"product_id":"the-pickle-index-9780374535810","title":"The Pickle Index","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Pickle Index\u003c\/i\u003e is full of life and everything else--it's rowdy and sweaty and heartbreaking, and by heartbreaking I mean funny, and by funny I mean laugh-until-you're-exhausted-and-leaking-and-hungry.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Miranda July \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eZloty Kornblatt is the hapless ringmaster of an even more hapless circus troupe. But one fateful night, Zloty makes a mistake: he accidentally makes his audience laugh. Here on the outskirts of Burford--where both the cuisine and the economy, such as they are, are highly dependent on pickled vegetables--laughter is a rare occasion. It draws the immediate attention of the local bureaucracy, and by morning Zloty has been branded an instigator, conspirator, and fomentor sentenced to death or worse.\u003cbr\u003eHis only hope lies with his dysfunctional troupe--a morose contortionist, a strongman who'd rather be miming, a lion tamer paired with an elderly dog--a ragged band of misfits and failures who must somehow spring Zloty from his cell at the top of the Confinement Needle. Their arcane skills become strangely useful, and unlikely success follows unlikely success. Until, suddenly, the successes end--leaving only Flora Bialy, Zloty's understudy and our shy narrator, to save the day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePunctuated with evocative woodcuts by Ian Huebert, Eli Horowitz's \u003ci\u003eThe Pickle Index\u003c\/i\u003e is a fast-moving fable, full of deadpan humor and absurd twists--and an innovative, exhilarating storytelling experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fsg Originals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374535810\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2015 pg. 42\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/21\/2015\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Eli Horowitz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43271754678453,"sku":"9780374535810","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3cf5fc9e-a3fc-40eb-8e3b-0c027fc3d04e.jpg?v=1699956663","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-pickle-index-9780374535810","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}