{"product_id":"roundabout-an-improvisational-fiction-9780913785416","title":"Roundabout: An Improvisational Fiction","description":"Ovid Dullann works as an assistant accountant for a multinational corporation and is supporting a family of four; but abruptly, on his forty-ninth birthday, Ovid runs away from his daily work and his loving family to go on a road trip. Struck by inspiration, Ovid knows that an Author is writing about him, and will do anything to avoid acting as a protagonist of a book. But this Author will not abandon his pursuit, and vows to punish Ovid, his wayward protagonist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhong Nguyen is the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eRoundabout\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Joe Harper\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Prairie Heritage Book Award), and two story collections, \u003ci\u003ePages from the Textbook of Alternate History\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMemory Sickness \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award). He is the editor, with Dan Chaon and Norah Lind, of \u003ci\u003eNancy Hale: On the Life and Work of a Lost American Master\u003c\/i\u003e. His own stories have appeared in more than fifty national literary journals, including \u003ci\u003eAgni\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoulevard\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNorth American Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the Miller Family Endowed Chair in Literature and Writing at the University of Missouri in Columbia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Moon City Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50591571378450,"sku":"9780913785416","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_11007f0b-4de1-426d-aee7-a5d9bf983b11.jpg?v=1732093534","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/roundabout-an-improvisational-fiction-9780913785416","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}