{"product_id":"solstice-9780062795779","title":"Solstice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn engrossing early novel from Joyce Carol Oates's earlier novels explores a fraught and perilous relationship between two women\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1985, \u003cem\u003eSolstice\u003c\/em\u003e is the gripping story of Monica Jensen and Sheila Trask, two young women who are complete opposites yet find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Monica is a shy, modest, and recently divorced school teacher while Sheila is a worldly, sophisticated, and nocturnal painter driven by the needs of her art. Over the months, their friendship deepens, first to love and then to a near-fatal obsession.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngaging, dark, and mysterious, \u003cem\u003eSolstice \u003c\/em\u003eis Joyce Carol Oates's psychological masterpiece of friendship and fixation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOates, Joyce Carol:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers \u003cem\u003eWe Were the Mulvaneys\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eBlonde\u003c\/em\u003e, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Falls\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491470741778,"sku":"9780062795779","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7661be7a-11b4-4f23-9b6c-c7c61ed334fd.jpg?v=1730541730","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/solstice-9780062795779","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}