{"product_id":"animal-truth-and-other-stories-9781608012381","title":"Animal Truth and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnimal Truth and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of eco-fabulist tales in which adventures with fantastic animals and real science lead to metamorphoses of the heart. Familiar legends, from Faust and Oedipus to werewolves and time travel, appear in radically new ways: An artist obsessed with species extinction unwittingly summons a demonic double when he creates a \"banquet\" featuring a baked mermaid. A brilliant woman studying a rare fish makes a soul-shattering discovery about motherhood. A time-travelling billionaire escapes his modern life only to have his heart broken by a lovely creature in Earth's remote past. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach tale in this collection turns into gold the prickling straw of anxieties about our continued life on the planet. By turns playful, terrifying, haunting, and sensuous, these stories inspire wonder at the interwoven lives of human and nonhuman beings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharona Muir's debut novel, \u003ci\u003eInvisible Beasts\u003c\/i\u003e, was praised in \u003ci\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, as a 'Title to Pick Up Now, ' and was a finalist for the Orion Prize. She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry; the Alfred Hodder fellowship from Princeton University; three Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence fellowships in fiction, nonfiction and poetry; and other awards. Muir has authored four books including a memoir from Random House\/Schocken Books and a first volume of poetry from Harper \u0026amp; Row. Other writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMichigan Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous other periodicals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of New Orleans Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50453030306066,"sku":"9781608012381","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_29e16ccc-f105-4db5-b649-bab38e435db0.jpg?v=1729832375","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/animal-truth-and-other-stories-9781608012381","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}