{"product_id":"9780803267442-altmanns-tongue","title":"Altmann's Tongue","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA collection of stories ranging from rural tales of death to a retelling of the biblical Job story, in which a skeletonized Job trades barbs and blows with a murderous lumberjack.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Evenson has created a fascinating, mysterious, and austere prose set in scenes that attain the precision of staged burlesque. Through the sparse economy of the plot and settings, Evenson's great moral sensibility is glimpsed behind the carnival mask of apparently frivolous murder.\"\u003c\/b\u003e-\u003ci\u003eSeattle Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrian Evenson has added an O. Henry Award–winning short story, \"Two Brothers,\" to this controversial book and a new afterword, in which he describes the troubling aftermath of the book's publication in 1994.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57440678805878,"sku":"9780803267442","price":15.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_37472927.jpg?v=1773138046","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780803267442-altmanns-tongue","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}