{"product_id":"the-world-to-come-stories-paperback","title":"The World to Come: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJim Shepard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBursting with wicked humor and driven by an incomparable understanding of what it means to be human, \u003ci\u003eThe World to Come\u003c\/i\u003e is the inimitable work of \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"the most ambitious story writer in America\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow a major motion picture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShepard traverses both borders and centuries, seamlessly inhabiting a multitude of disparate men and women, and giving voice to visionaries, pioneers, and secret misfits--from nineteenth-century explorers departing on one of the Arctic's most nightmarish expeditions to twentieth-century American military wives maintaining hope at home. Shepard's characters confront everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to colossal catastrophes, battling natural forces, the hazards of new technology, and their own implacable shortcomings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Shepard] has a knack for compressing a novel's worth of life into 30 or 40 pages.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim Shepard is the author of four previous collections, including \u003ci\u003eLike You'd Understand, Anyway\u003c\/i\u003e, which won The Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award, and his short fiction has often been selected for \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe PEN\/O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. The most recent of his seven novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Aron\u003c\/i\u003e, won the PEN\/New England Award, the Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish literature, the Harold U. Ribalow Book Prize for Jewish literature, and the Clark Fiction Prize. He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts with his wife, the writer Karen Shepard, his three children and three beagles, and he teaches at Williams College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 16, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379269124274,"sku":"9780525432319","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ddfa2071401fbdff4d50b66b4e8e09bd.webp?v=1777758836","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-world-to-come-stories-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}