{"product_id":"voodoo-heart-stories-9780385338424","title":"Voodoo Heart: Stories","description":"Scott Snyder's protagonists inhabit a playfully deranged fictional world in which a Wall Street trader can find himself armed with a speargun, guarding a Dumpster outside a pawnshop in Florida; or an employee at Niagara Falls (his job: watching for jumpers) will take off in a car after a blimp in which his girlfriend has escaped. But in Snyder's wondrous imagination there's a thin membrane between the whimsical and the disturbing: the unlikely affair between a famous actress--in hiding after surgery--and a sporting goods salesman takes an ominous turn just as she begins to heal; an engaged couple's relationship is fractured when one of them becomes obsessed with an inmate at the women's prison next door. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDark, funny, powerful, this debut collection underscores the remarkable gifts of a fiercely original young writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScott Snyder has been published in \u003ci\u003eZoetrope\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOne Story\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEpoch\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dial Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491705655570,"sku":"9780385338424","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2470db33-9e32-417a-b18e-9ad8340faa68.jpg?v=1730551007","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/voodoo-heart-stories-9780385338424","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}