{"product_id":"in-orbit-wright-morris-9780803258303","title":"In Orbit","description":"\"In the space of one day, Jubal E. Gainer, high school dropout and draft dodger, manages to rack up an impressive array of crimes. . . . He steals a friend's motorcycle, rapes a simple-minded spinster, mugs a pixyish professor, and stabs an obese visionary who runs a surplus store. He then waits out an Indiana twister and goes his way, leaving as much wreckage in his path as the twister itself.\"--Library Journal. \"In Orbit is a short novel, full of action, and the seriousness can mostly be found between the lines.  There] one can see against what Jubal Gainer's rebellion, thoughtless and aimless as it seems, is directed. One might say that he is, like millions of his contemporaries, a Huck Finn without a Mississippi.\"-- Granville Hicks, Saturday Review. \"Here is another of Wright Morris's craftsmanly novels--terse, colloquial, restrained, fragmented, deliberately shadowy. Above all, small; not slight, not inconsequential, but a miniature. . . . All readers will surely appreciate the quality of the prose style one has come to expect in a Wright Morris novel. . . . There is also a muscular quality to Mr. Morris's writing that makes it a suitable instrument for conveying harsher things; and there is his sense of the comic, which springs up constantly. In all, this is a quiet but rich performance.\"--New York Times Book Review. One of the most distinguished American authors, Wright Morris (1910-1988) wrote thirty-three books including The Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wright Morris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803258305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803258303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1976\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.04h x 5.10w x 0.41d","brand":"Wright Morris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44890599162111,"sku":"9780803258303","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_af560aab-3a3b-4916-9b61-e75cb7bcdacb.jpg?v=1709739492","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-orbit-wright-morris-9780803258303","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}