{"product_id":"last-years-jesus-ellen-slezak-9780786886388","title":"Last Year's Jesus: A Novella and Nine Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow available in paperback, a collection of interconnected stories by an award-winning writer with a distinctive voice and an unerring sense of place.\u003c\/b\u003e The stories in this affecting debut collection are populated by the sober, self-effacing members of Detroit's Polish-Catholic working class. Linked by place and characters, the stories create a world both familiar and strange, where religion is a way of life and traditions are carried down through the generations. But even this isolated community cannot remain immutable. In these wonderfully poignant and witty stories based on people and places she knows well, Ellen Slezak documents the colorful clash of young and old, of religious and secular, of traditional values and the temptations of the flesh. Like \u003ci\u003eWinesburg, Ohio\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLast Year's Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e creates a fully realized world teetering on the brink of change. Writing with tremendous empathy, warmth, and humor, Slezak brings to life the sights and sounds of a place she calls home--a place readers won't soon forget.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ellen Slezak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0786886382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780786886388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hachette Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.16h x 5.24w x 0.66d","brand":"Ellen Slezak","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44128539050239,"sku":"9780786886388","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_572f1ae3-13cf-4a10-ae95-7dfb5554c4c7.jpg?v=1687459170","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/last-years-jesus-ellen-slezak-9780786886388","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}