{"product_id":"pieces-of-payne-9781555973780","title":"Pieces Of Payne","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbert Goldbarth is a dazzling virtuoso who can break your heart (Joyce Carol Oates)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow is Eliza''s divorce connected to the rise of twentieth-century quantum physics? Why does the steamy promise of a key unlocking a door at a cheap motel along I-35 lead us to a consideration of \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e? What does one physician''s fake appointment book have to do with Columbus, werewolves, and Fanny Burney''s famously excruciating nineteenth-century mastectomy? Albert Goldbarth sets his story of love''s daily pleasures and griefs upon a foundation of ever-branching footnotesfrom the strange worlds of supermarket tabloids and the Legion of Super-Heroes to more contemplative forays into gender politics, Dickens scholarship, and medical anomalies. By taking us on this mind-bending journey, he shows us how our lives are both confused and empowered by the multilayered universe around us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePieces of Payne\u003c\/i\u003e is the first novel by Goldbarth, a two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041315127639,"sku":"9781555973780","price":13.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781555973780.jpg?v=1750949777","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pieces-of-payne-9781555973780","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}