{"product_id":"a-posthumous-confession-marcellus-emants-9781590173473","title":"A Posthumous Confession","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTermeer, the narrator of \u003ci\u003eA Posthumous Confession\u003c\/i\u003e, is a twisted man and a troubled one. The emotionally stunted son of a cold, forbidding, and hypocritical father, Termeer has only succeeded in living up to his parents' low expectations when, to his own and others' astonishment, he finds himself wooing a beautiful and gifted woman--a woman whose love he wins. But instead of finding happiness in marriage, Termeer discovers it to be a new source of self-hatred, hatred that he turns upon his wife and child. And when he becomes caught up in an affair with a woman as demanding as his own self-loathing, he is driven to murder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat is the self, and how does it evade or come to terms with itself? What can make it go permanently, lethally wrong? Marcellus Emants's grueling and gripping novel--a late-nineteenth-century tour de force of psychological penetration--is a lacerating exposition of the logic of identity that looks backward to Dostoyevsky, forward to Simenon, and beyond to the confessional literature, whether fiction or fact, of our own day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcellus Emants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590173473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590173473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.33w x 0.44d","brand":"Marcellus Emants","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938455519487,"sku":"9781590173473","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1550a04a-7d0d-4a94-b4fb-7ecc991a1511.jpg?v=1681435790","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-posthumous-confession-marcellus-emants-9781590173473","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}