{"product_id":"hypothermia-alvaro-enrigue-9781564788733","title":"Hypothermia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHypothermia\u003c\/i\u003e explores the perilous limits of love, language, and personality, the brutal gravity of cultural misunderstandings, and the coldly smirking will to self-destruction hiding within our irredeemably carnal lives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, \"micro-novels,\" and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills of California's gold-rush country, introducing an array of bewildering characters: a professor of Latin American literature who survives a tornado and, possibly, an orgy; an electrician confronting the hardest wiring job of his career; a hapless garbage man who dreams of life as a pirate; and a prodigiously talented Polish baritone waging musical war against his church. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alvaro Enrigue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1564788733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781564788733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/27\/2013","brand":"Alvaro Enrigue","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989312700671,"sku":"9781564788733","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e7ae4694-3c5f-4eeb-9d10-c1500124e9d4.jpg?v=1683298795","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hypothermia-alvaro-enrigue-9781564788733","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}