{"product_id":"excuse-me-while-i-disappear-joanna-scott-9780316498746","title":"Excuse Me While I Disappear: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom a Pulitzer Prize finalist and \"greatly gifted and highly original artist\" comes a masterful collection of stories about the timeless universal struggle to connect (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoanna Scott, the critically acclaimed author of ten novels and two collections, turns her \"incandescent imagination\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) back to the craft of the short story, with breathtaking results. Ranging across history from the distant past to the future, Scott tours the many forms our stories can take, from cave wall paintings to radio banter to digitized archives, and the far-reaching consequences of our communications. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Venice in the Late Middle Ages, a painter's apprentice finds a way to make his mark on canvases that will survive for centuries. In the near future, after the literary canon has been preserved only on the cloud and then lost, a scholar tries to piece together a little-known school of writers committed to using actual paper. In present day New England, a radio host invites his electrician to stay for dinner, opening up new narrative possibilities for both men. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten in prose so naturally elegant, smooth, and precise that it becomes invisible, \u003ci\u003eExcuse Me While I Disappear\u003c\/i\u003e asks what remains of our stories--as individuals and civilizations--after we are gone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joanna Scott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0316498742\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316498746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Little Brown and Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/22\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2021 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/26\/2021 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2021","brand":"Joanna Scott","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44043988271359,"sku":"9780316498746","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_64ebff53-33d5-4de8-920c-673febb3dbfa.jpg?v=1684970270","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/excuse-me-while-i-disappear-joanna-scott-9780316498746","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}