{"product_id":"pythons-kiss-stories","title":"Python's Kiss : Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt was as though I was chosen-marked out by the python's kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlso, I hoped for a long life. WRITTEN OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES, Louise Erdrich's magnificent story collection features a range of characters-a tribal newsletter editor whose son tells her a story that nothing in her experience can encompass, immigrant farmers whose tenuous hold on the earth, and sanity, is challenged, and ordinary people, bird lovers, artists, grade-school teachers, and romantics. A girl decides to spend her life with a stone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA man is confronted with a folk-singing thief. A woman enters a corporately owned afterlife to seek revenge on her father. Accompanied by specially commissioned artwork by Aza Erdrich Abe-an intimate and revelatory creative collaboration between mother and daughter-these stories offer an oppor­tunity to celebrate the wisdom and brilliant, wide-ranging imagination of one of America's most important writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louise Erdrich","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57659139981699,"sku":"9781472160812","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/thepythonskiss.png?v=1774272388","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.com\/products\/pythons-kiss-stories","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}