{"product_id":"days-stories-9781640091801","title":"Days: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Robison is both wise and entertaining, a technician with a sense of humor, a minimalist with a good eye for what can be salvaged from lives of quiet desperation.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The population of Mary Robison's fiction is the stunned citizenry of a world vaporized beneath them, people who say \"all right\" and \"okay\" often, not because they consent, but because nothing counts. Still, there are chronicles of small victories here, small only because, as Robison so precisely documents, larger victories are impossible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"There is an almost incredible purity of line and texture in these stories. Every phrase is lucid, every character comes alive, and every sentence suggested a calm, wise, heartbroken version of the world. Robison writes like an avenging angel, and I think she may be a genius.\" --Richard Yates, author of \u003ci\u003eCold Spring Harbor\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":50474538008850,"sku":"9781640091801","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4c11a8de-379c-43ec-a3bf-73fcf936d54f.jpg?v=1730223581","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/days-stories-9781640091801","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}