{"product_id":"the-spot-stories-9780865478510","title":"The Spot: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Spot is an old blacksmith shed in which three men tweeze apart the intricacies of a botched bank robbery. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot is a park on the Hudson River, where two lovers sense their affair is about to come to an end. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot is at the bottom of Niagara Falls, where the body of a young girl floats as if caught in the currents of her own tragic story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot is in the ear of a Manhattan madman plagued by a noisy upstairs neighbor . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot is a suburban hospital room in which a young father confronts his son's potentially devastating diagnosis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot is a dusty encampment in Nebraska where a gang of inept radicals plot a revolution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot draws thirteen new stories together into a masterful collection that shows David Means at his finest: at once comically detached and wrenchingly affecting, expansive and concise, wildly inventive and firmly rooted in tradition. Means's work has earned him comparisons to Flannery O'Connor (\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e), Alice Munro, Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac (\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e), Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson (\u003ci\u003eChicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\/NPR), Denis Johnson (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), Poe, Chekhov, and Carver (\u003ci\u003eMilwaukee Journal Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e), but the spot he has staked out in the American literary landscape is fully and originally his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780865478510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.59w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/31\/2011 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"David Means","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43471094153397,"sku":"9780865478510","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_609f236e-e80c-4571-b39d-4f5516dc3eaa.jpg?v=1704822531","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-spot-stories-9780865478510","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}