{"product_id":"half-in-love-9780743246859","title":"Half in Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eFourteen remarkable stories that combine strong Western settings with a subtle and distinct female voice. This critically celebrated debut collection marks the exciting beginning of prize-winner Meloy's promising career.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLean and controlled in their narration, abundant and moving in their effects, Maile Meloy's stories introduce a striking talent. Most are set in the modern American West, made vivid and unexpected in Meloy's unsentimental vision; others take us to Paris, wartime London, and Greece, with the same remarkable skill and intuition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Four Lean Hounds, ca. 1976,\" two couples face a complicated grief when one of the four dies. In \"Ranch Girl,\" the college-bound daughter of a ranch foreman must choose which adult world she wants to occupy. In \"A Stakes Horse,\" a woman confronts risk and loss at the racetrack and at home. And in \"Aqua Boulevard\"--winner of the 2001 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction--an elderly Parisian confronts his mortality. Meloy's command of her characters' voices is breathtaking; their fears and desires are deftly illuminated. Smart, surprising, and evocative, Meloy's brilliantly observed stories fully engage the mind and heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeloy, Maile:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Maile Meloy is the author of the story collection \u003ci\u003eHalf in Love\u003c\/i\u003e and the novel \u003ci\u003eLiars and Saints\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize. Meloy's stories have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and she has received \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN\/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in California.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649879478546,"sku":"9780743246859","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c06b53da-aee2-46a6-90e1-a864381a1e8e.jpg?v=1733275738","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/half-in-love-9780743246859","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}