{"product_id":"the-undertakers-wife-9780765326126","title":"The Undertaker's Wife","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom award-winning author Loren D. Estleman comes \u003ci\u003eThe Undertaker's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe undertaker's wife waits, she weaves, she builds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe undertaker practices his art, the Dismal Trade, with consummate skill. He has raised it to an art through the high craft of the Connable Method. Through it, he has managed to transform the ugliness of death into a thing of dignity and beauty. Victims brutalized by war, street fights, tavern brawls, ambushes, fires, every hazard in a raw West--these in his hands become presentable. Everywhere on the frontier, which erupts with life and death, he offers his skill: to the rich of San Francisco, the bawds and ruffians of the Barbary Coast, to Kansas cowboys, outlaws, soldiers, and sheriffs. He is devoted to dignifying the dead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe is devoted to making her marriage whole, in spite of the tragedy that surrounds it; and most especially in spite of the tragedy that in one terrible afternoon strikes at its center. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToday the undertaker is called to disguise the suicide of a famous financier. It is high drama, for only his art can save American's financial markets. Her task on this day is secret, an act of understanding and dedication. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the end it is the undertaker's wife who, through love, is able to transcend death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Forge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780765326126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.28h x 6.18w x 0.79d","brand":"Loren D. Estleman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42769682727093,"sku":"9780765326126","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_eadab210-c9be-4028-8956-da011a2e77f9.jpg?v=1678834731","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-undertakers-wife-9780765326126","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}