{"product_id":"the-shadow-year-9780061231537","title":"The Shadow Year","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy spends much of his free time in the basement of his family's modest home, where he and his brother, Jim, have created Botch Town, a detailed cardboard replica of their community, complete with figurines representing friends and neighbors. Their little sister, Mary, smokes cigarettes, speaks in other voices, inhabits alternate personas . . . and, unbeknownst to her siblings, moves around the inanimate clay residents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a strangeness in the air as disappearances, deaths, spectral sightings, and the arrival of a sinister man in a long white car mark this unforgettable shadow year. But strangest of all is the inescapable fact that all these troubling occurrences directly cor-respond to the changes little Mary has made to the miniature town in their basement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFord, Jeffrey:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJeffrey Ford is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eThe Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, \u003c\/em\u003ethe Edgar Award-winning \u003cem\u003eThe Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World, The Shadow Year, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Twilight Pariah\u003c\/em\u003e, and his collections include \u003cem\u003eThe Fantasy Writer's Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Natural History of Hell\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives near Columbus, Ohio, and teaches writing at Ohio Wesleyan University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491375124754,"sku":"9780061231537","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c5e58829-d29f-4817-8802-55c4a1eab418.jpg?v=1730539892","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-shadow-year-9780061231537","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}