{"product_id":"pythons-kiss","title":"Python's Kiss","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e240 pages | hardcover\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“[A] spectacular collection. . . . A staggering sense of empathy infuses the stories. With its range of voices and styles, this puts Erdrich’s powers on full display.” — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was as though I was chosen—marked out by the python’s kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of experience. Also, I hoped for a long life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten over the past two decades, Louise Erdrich’s magnificent story collection features a range of characters—a tribal newsletter editor whose son tells her a story that nothing in her experience can encompass, immigrant farmers whose tenuous hold on the earth, and sanity, is challenged, and ordinary people, bird lovers, artists, grade-school teachers, and romantics. A girl decides to spend her life with a stone. A man is confronted with a folk-singing thief. A woman enters a corporately owned afterlife to seek revenge on her father.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccompanied by specially commissioned artwork by Aza Erdrich Abe—an intimate and revelatory creative collaboration between mother and daughter—these stories offer an oppor­tunity to celebrate the wisdom and brilliant, wide-ranging imagination of one of America’s most important writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45409760575625,"sku":"9780063375000","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0376\/3057\/4729\/files\/9780063375000_70708.jpg?v=1776805397","url":"https:\/\/thebookmarkpr.com\/products\/pythons-kiss","provider":"The Bookmark Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}