{"product_id":"peace-9780307388582","title":"Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis \"small masterpiece with the same emotional force and moral complexity as Conrad's \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e and Tolstoy's \u003ci\u003eHadji Murad\u003c\/i\u003e\" (Colm Tóibín) \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003einspired the film \u003ci\u003eRecon.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eItaly, near Cassino, in the terrible winter of 1944. An icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes, three American soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a steep hill that they discover, before very long, to be a mountain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs they climb, the old man's indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them. \u003ci\u003ePeace \u003c\/i\u003eis a feat of storytelling from one of America's most acclaimed novelists: a powerful look at the corrosiveness of violence, the human cost of war, and the redemptive power of mercy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is Richard Bausch's eleventh novel. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications and has been featured in numerous best-of collections, including \u003cb\u003eThe\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eO. Henry Awards' Best American Short Stories, \u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eNew Stories from the South\u003c\/b\u003e. He is chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and lives in Memphis, Tennessee, where he is Moss Chair of Excellence in the Writer's Workshop of the University of Memphis.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52039773618450,"sku":"9780307388582","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1717088a-5be4-4a25-8212-933fdd1ec739.jpg?v=1771413336","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/peace-9780307388582","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}