{"product_id":"sea-lovers-selected-stories-9780307739551","title":"Sea Lovers: Selected Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eTwelve extraordinary short stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eProperty\u003c\/i\u003e that explore human morality and our shared losses and joys, shifting from realism to myth, from the Louisiana bayou to the streets of Rome and beyond. - \"Complex and wonderful.... A long, cool drink of water.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In these stories, Martin mines her three literary preoccupations--animals, artists, and metamorphoses--to unforgettable effect. In \"The Consolation of Nature,\" a family battles a giant rat that has invaded their home. \"The Open Door\" follows an American poet in Rome, forced to choose between her lover and a world so new it takes her breath away. In \"Et in Academic Ego,\" a seventeen-year-old bayou orphan falls in love with a centaur who transforms her life. And the title story conjures up a hideous mermaid who fatally seduces a fisherman. Sophisticated, incisive, deeply felt and always surprising, \u003ci\u003eSea Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e showcases the enduring work of an indispensable writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVALERIE MARTIN is the author of eleven novels, four collections of short fiction, and a biography of Saint Francis of Assisi, titled \u003ci\u003eSalvation.\u003c\/i\u003e She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as the Kafka Prize (for \u003ci\u003eMary Reilly\u003c\/i\u003e) and Britain's Orange Prize (for \u003ci\u003eProperty\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50319079604498,"sku":"9780307739551","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e95d99ac-0694-43c0-bfcf-acb1d3d49939.jpg?v=1727564219","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sea-lovers-selected-stories-9780307739551","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}