{"product_id":"the-return-9781250898180","title":"The Return","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Dark, intimate and sneakily touching . . . There is gold to be found in [\u003ci\u003eThe Return\u003c\/i\u003e].\" --Michael Greenberg, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eComposed of thirteen indelible stories, Roberto Bola?o's \u003ci\u003eThe Return\u003c\/i\u003e is preoccupied with ghosts: troubled souls haunting society's margins, lovers lost to the ages, young men who no longer recognize themselves in the mirror, fresh corpses afforded no peace, departed poets who visit us in dreams. These tales capture the extremes of human experience--sex, violence, death--and the mundane acts that linger in between, with Bola?o's inimitable mordant humor and trenchant insight into what drives us. A master of the short form, Bola?o is as interested in the act of storytelling as he is in the stories themselves: how they nestle within one another; how they shift, spread, and scatter; and how they return to us again and again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250898180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Roberto Bola?o","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44413649092789,"sku":"9781250898180","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_fd09cd24-407c-4a03-b74a-b367624d27c5.jpg?v=1720538116","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-return-9781250898180","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}