{"product_id":"big-dark-hole-and-other-stories-9781618731845","title":"Big Dark Hole: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWorld Fantasy Award finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt sounds innocuous. The routine world of\u003cbr\u003e college teaching. Evenings on a porch with your wife. And then . . . maybe it's an unexpected light in a dark \u003cbr\u003eand uninhabited house, maybe it's a drainage tunnel that some poor kid \u003cbr\u003eis suddenly compelled to explore. Maybe there's a monkey in the woods or\u003cbr\u003e an angel that you'll need to fight if you want to gain tenure. Jeffrey Ford's stunning new collection \u003ci\u003eBig Dark Hole\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e is about those big, dark holes that we find ourselves once in a while \u003cbr\u003eand maybe, too, the big dark holes that exist inside of us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey Ford was born on Long Island in New York State in 1955 and grew up in the town of West Islip. He studied fiction writing with John Gardner at S.U.N.Y Binghamton. He's been a college English teacher of writing and literature for thirty years. He is the author of nine novels including \u003ci\u003eThe Girl in the Glass\u003c\/i\u003e and five short story collections, including \u003ci\u003eA Natural History of Hell.\u003c\/i\u003e He has received multiple World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards as well as the Nebula and Edgar awards among others. He lives with his wife Lynn in a century old farm house in a land of slow clouds and endless fields.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Small Beer Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525385130258,"sku":"9781618731845","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cf4cc575-6a3c-4038-b7d6-78ed0545e3d1.jpg?v=1731216423","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/big-dark-hole-and-other-stories-9781618731845","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}