{"product_id":"cynosura-tito-perdue-9781940933382","title":"Cynosura","description":"\u003cp\u003eArrogance and romance \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCynosura\u003c\/em\u003e is a feverish love story between a non-ordinary Tennessee farm girl of supernal physical beauty and an estranged youth possessed of exceptional intellectual ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe girl, a gifted and hard-working cellist, is a natural-born elitist, contemptuous, or anyway indifferent to ordinary people. Her self-selected life's mission is to identify the man to whom she will want to consecrate her life. She is sexual, intelligent, melancholy, efficient, and intuits that her life will be short.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe boy, preternaturally brilliant, is not in love with life. He chooses solitude so as not to have to compromise with friends (he hasn't any) or colleagues. Value, he believes, derives solely from the mind and imagination, though he is too young, of course, to have developed a full philosophy. He abhors capitalist practice and strives for self-sufficiency at the price of poverty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir brief and explosive affair approaches transcendence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tito Perdue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1940933382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781940933382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Standard American Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d","brand":"Tito Perdue","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45180391817471,"sku":"9781940933382","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_49fa910e-7e0b-43ba-89ed-712fe4b8e458.jpg?v=1712897943","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cynosura-tito-perdue-9781940933382","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}