{"product_id":"an-amateurs-guide-to-the-night-stories-9781640090897","title":"An Amateur's Guide to the Night: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Mary Robison's short stories are short, subtle, and substantial . . . Her ironic sense of detail bursts from every sentence.\" --\u003ci\u003eVogue \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Amateur's Guide to the Night\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a perfect example of Mary Robison's beloved narrative style: purposeful, clipped, and devastating in its restraint. Reflecting on the life of disaffected youth, these stories speculate on how they often manage to remain deferent towards the rest of society--and document how spectacularly they often fail. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"These thirteen stories are glimpses from a moving train into lit parlors, dinettes, bedrooms and dens . . . Think of Robison as the engineer, blowing the whistle, calling the stops and starts; invisible when you want to ask her why we're stalled here in the middle of nowhere, between stations, jobs, relationships and decisions.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Robison\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Washington, D.C. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, an O. Henry Award, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Fiction, and the 2018 Arts and Letters Award in Literature. She is the author of four novels and four story collections. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50474537910546,"sku":"9781640090897","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_39bf96c7-eb4d-4170-8dc7-ef6a44be6788.jpg?v=1730223572","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/an-amateurs-guide-to-the-night-stories-9781640090897","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}