{"product_id":"ethan-frome-summer-bunner-sisters-9781841593128","title":"Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-cass people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEthan Frome\u003c\/i\u003e is one of Wharton's most famous works; it is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. \u003ci\u003eSummer\u003c\/i\u003e, also set in rural New England, is often considered a companion to \u003ci\u003eEthan Frome\u003c\/i\u003e - Wharton herself called it 'the hot Ethan' - in its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and social awakening. \u003ci\u003eBunner Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e takes place in the narrow, dusty streets of late-nineteenth-century New York, where the constrained but peaceful lives of two spinster shopkeepers are shattered when they meet a man who becomes the unworthy focus of all their pent-up hopes.\u003cbr\u003eAll three of these novellas feature realistic and haunting characters as vivid as any Wharton ever conjured, and together they provide a superb introduction to the shorter fiction of one of America's greatest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Everyman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138416050519,"sku":"9781841593128","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781841593128.jpg?v=1751919335","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ethan-frome-summer-bunner-sisters-9781841593128","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}