{"product_id":"hide-island-richard-burgin-9781937875671","title":"Hide Island: A Novella and Nine Stories","description":"In \u003ci\u003eHide Island\u003c\/i\u003e, his sixteenth book and eighth collection of stories, Richard Burgin explores themes of love and crime, memory and identity, abuse and redemption, and the contradictory battle between our fierce struggle to live lives worth remembering and our desire to disentangle ourselves from a past we wish to forget. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe stories involve an extraordinarily variegated group of characters--ranging from doctors and drug dealers, prostitutes and businessmen, to writers and domestic workers. \u003ci\u003eHide Island\u003c\/i\u003e gives voice to the profoundly tormented as well as those who seek and find enlightenment, justifying Joyce Carol Oates' praise in \u003ci\u003eNewsweek's The Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e that \"What Edgar Allan Poe did for the psychotic soul, Richard Burgin does for the deeply neurotic who pass among us disguised as so seemingly 'normal' we may mistake them for ourselves.\" And why the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e concluded that \"Burgin's tales capture the strangeness of a world that is simultaneously frightening and reassuring, and in the contemporary American short story nothing quite resembles his singular voice.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Burgin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1937875679\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781937875671\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trp: The University Press of Shsu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90d","brand":"Richard Burgin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48623338488063,"sku":"9781937875671","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hide-island-richard-burgin-9781937875671","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}