{"product_id":"the-hotel-eden-stories-9780393331790","title":"The Hotel Eden: Stories","description":"In the title story, a young man waiting in the Hotel Eden discovers--as others have--that Eden is not a permanent domicile. In \"Zanduce at Second,\" a baseball player turned killer-by-accident undergoes a surprising transformation. We root for escaped felon Ray (\"A Note on the Type\") as he carves his name on a culvert wall. We drive the sweltering summer streets of Phoenix as a nineteen-year-old narrator goes through an unsettling sexual awakening (\"Oxygen\"). In these and other stories, whether his characters are getting sabotaged by nightcaps or encountering nudists on a rafting trip, Carlson takes us to new places in a new way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarlson, Ron:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRon Carlson\u003c\/strong\u003e teaches creative writing at Arizona State and lives in Scottsdale. His stories, much anthologized, have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's, Esquire, Playboy\u003c\/i\u003e, and other magazines.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460179824914,"sku":"9780393331790","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6b13452d-1af7-409e-94c3-26ca30cf8868.jpg?v=1730032749","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-hotel-eden-stories-9780393331790","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}