{"product_id":"the-end-of-the-road-9781628971576","title":"The End of the Road","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs young Jake Horner's mind became an increasingly paralyzing cobweb of dark thoughts, he turned for help to an extraordinary doctor-part saint, part evil-genius, a weird combination of faith healer, magician, and devil. And in so doing Jake found himself following a drastic prescription that was to draw him into a strange, compulsive relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is around the startling results of Jake Horner's \"cure\" and its amazing mastermind-a doctor almost surely designed to become one of the most remarkable characters in modern fiction-that this brilliant, imaginative novel hinges. John Barth is a young writer of unusual talent whose uncanny insight into the dark mazes of the human mind has given The End of the Road a haunting and troubling reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarth, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - John Barth is our most celebrated postmodernist. From the appearance in 1956 of \u003ci\u003eThe Floating Opera\u003c\/i\u003e, his first published book, through the essay collection \u003ci\u003eFinal Fridays\u003c\/i\u003e, released in 2012, he has published at least two books in each of the seven decades spanning his writerly life thus far. Thrice nominated for the National Book Award--\u003ci\u003eThe Floating Opera\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLost in the Funhouse\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChimera\u003c\/i\u003e, which won in 1973--Barth has received the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction, the PEN\/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, and the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. A native of Maryland's Eastern Shore, he taught for twenty-two years in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He now lives in Florida with his wife Shelly.","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51615507579154,"sku":"9781628971576","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_71970e3f-5596-49d0-937e-ceca0ebaeb79.jpg?v=1758099814","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-end-of-the-road-9781628971576","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}