{"product_id":"jacob-fishmans-marriages-hardcover","title":"Jacob Fishman's Marriages - Hardcover","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\u003eBarry Friedman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne couple. Two stories. One truth. Sort of.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacob Fishman is miserable. His wife, Cindi, is miserable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis editor wants him to write another book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuffocating in his own self-consciousness, Jacob decides to explore the frailties, fears, and deficiencies of his life with Cindi including, most tellingly, her desire to have a baby-and his desire not to. He creates Fishman doppelgängers, literary avatars, to see if their lives can be better than his. He wills himself to the intersection of truth, verisimilitude, and fantasy and finds himself paralyzed once there, no longer sure which events unfold in real life and which exist only in his book. Cindi, watching her life being laid bare, sees her husband as a megalomaniacal provocateur and chafes at his cherry-picking of their marriage and identities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in and around the University of Nevada, Reno, \u003cem\u003eJacob Fishman's Marriages\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of an author's conceit and what the creation of art excuses. It is the story of a husband and a wife and a husband and a wife-the same husband and wife. Sort of.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Barry Friedman: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This masterpiece would blow away the competition, if there were competition for such a masterpiece, which there is not.\"-Shane Gericke, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Fury\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I haven't been able to get five pages in without having to catch my breath. You're a brave writer, my brother.\"-Charles P. Pierce, \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Barry Friedman has written a raw, gut-wrenching book about the game-playing side of a marriage gone wrong. But this ain't a fairy tale. This is a brilliant look at a walk on the dark side of life.\"-Jerry Izenberg, Red Smith Award-wining author of \u003cem\u003eOnce There Were Giants\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAfter the Fire: Love and Hate in the Ashes of 1967\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Seeing the broken yet still beautiful world through his eyes is cathartic.\"- Jennifer Taub, author of \u003cem\u003eBig Dirty Money \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 350\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47252867219705,"sku":"9781087929934","price":32.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/TmRkZHUrU0dpdnBBU1lheFFBd1Iwdz09.webp?v=1768693715","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/jacob-fishmans-marriages-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}