{"product_id":"a-death-in-the-country-and-other-tales-of-our-time-paperback","title":"A Death in the Country, and Other Tales of Our Time - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephen Vincent Benet\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong Benét's most beautiful and moving works are these eight deceptively simple short stories that he assembled as \u003ci\u003eTales of Our Time.\u003c\/i\u003e Each tale uses a seemingly commonplace situation-a class reunion, a funeral, teenagers falling in love in the summer, a family embarrassed by a father's crude joke, a marriage quietly failing under cover of social courtesies-to expose the fraught and complex dimensions of the characters' relationship to society and themselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The picture of America that these stories paint is full of wit and humor, but also sorrow and tragic awareness. They are a reminder to today's reader of how much of our \"modern\" experience is really universal, and how even those people and societies most changed by the course of progress remain at heart the same people, for better and worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 162\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 18, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48704661946617,"sku":"9780692558843","price":13.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/9JqCX8TD939780692558843.webp?v=1784817289","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/a-death-in-the-country-and-other-tales-of-our-time-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}