{"product_id":"gates-of-eden-9780061684883","title":"Gates of Eden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A distinctive voice and an offbeat worldview...All of these stories take place in Coen Brothers Land, a parallel universe similar to our own--except it's weirder, funnier, and better edited.\" -- \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe fiction debut of one of the most distinctive filmmakers working today, Ethan Coen.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eGates of Eden\u003c\/em\u003e, Ethan Coen exhibits on the printed page the striking, twisted, yet devastatingly on-target vision of modern American life familiar from his movies. The world within the world we live in comes alive in fourteen brazenly original tragicomic short stories--from the Midwest mob war that fizzles due to the principals' ineptness to the trials of a deaf private eye with a blind client to a fugitive's heartbreaking explanation for having beheaded his wife, alarming in that it almost makes sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoen, Ethan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eEthan Coen and his brother, Joel Coen, are multiple Oscar-winning American filmmakers who have written and directed a number of acclaimed motion pictures, including \u003cem\u003eRaising Arizona\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlood Simple\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFargo\u003c\/em\u003e, and the 2007 Best Picture Academy Award winner, \u003cem\u003eNo Country for Old Men\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459897266450,"sku":"9780061684883","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_277462f8-1e95-4251-8401-291bdf42b9fc.jpg?v=1730012779","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gates-of-eden-9780061684883","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}