{"product_id":"an-ideal-for-living-paperback","title":"An Ideal for Living - 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\u003eMarshall Moore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrace White and her brother Robert, overweight and affluent, are desperate to hang onto their respective love interests. Grace's husband Rich is bonking every woman he can talk into bed. Grace is willing to look beyond his affairs if she can just have her marriage back. Robert's law school fling James's interest diminished as Robert's waistline increased, but Robert has never moved on. The only solution? Losing those excess pounds... by any means necessary. And when James finds a supernatural healer who can sculpt living flesh like clay, beautiful ugliness ensues. Will Robert and Grace get what they want, or what they deserve? In \u003cem\u003eAn Ideal for Living\u003c\/em\u003e, Marshall Moore has written a shocking fantastique, a novel that captures the Zeitgeist of contemporary urban life, where beauty is a commodity craved, consumed, and traded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarshall Moore is the author of four novels (\u003cem\u003eInhospitable\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBitter Orange\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAn Ideal for Living\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Concrete Sky\u003c\/em\u003e), four short-fiction collections (\u003cem\u003eA Garden Fed by Lightning\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Infernal Republic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlack Shapes in a Darkened Room\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLove Is a Poisonous Color\u003c\/em\u003e), a collection of essays \u003cem\u003eSunset House\u003c\/em\u003e, and a memoir \u003cem\u003eI Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing\u003c\/em\u003e. His work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Southern Review, Litro, Storgy, Passengers Journal, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Asia Literary Review, The Barcelona Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other journals and anthologies. He is also the co-editor of three academic books on the pedagogy of creative writing and publishing. He holds a PhD in creative writing from Aberystwyth University. A native of eastern North Carolina, he lives in Cornwall, England, and teaches creative writing and publishing at Falmouth University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 218\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47268033724665,"sku":"9781608643813","price":25.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/FAKFr1bQiO9781608643813.webp?v=1768873772","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/an-ideal-for-living-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}