{"product_id":"a-registry-of-my-passage-upon-the-earth-stories-9780316477628","title":"A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Pulitzer Prize Finalist: This collection of moving short stories is \"a treasure trove of lush scene setting in faraway times and places\" (Alexis Burling, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a fateful flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Regency London, a bare-knuckle fighter prepares to face his most fearsome opponent, while a young mother seeks a miraculous cure for her ailing son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt times funny and irreverent, always moving and deeply urgent, these stories--among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner--cap a fifteen-year project. From the Nile's depths to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, from volcano-racked islands to an asylum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, these are tales of ecstasy, epiphany, and what the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e called the \"struggle for survival . . . hand to hand, word to word,\" by \"one of the finest prose stylists in American fiction.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Library Journal Best Book of 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Mason\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the collection \u003ci\u003eA Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the California Book Award, and three novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Winter Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Piano Tuner\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages and awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize for Fiction, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is an assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50604672680210,"sku":"9780316477628","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_94ab0d7a-8767-45f6-acb4-3900ea6fa85c.jpg?v=1732262754","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-registry-of-my-passage-upon-the-earth-stories-9780316477628","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}