{"product_id":"paradise-by-paradise-howard-burman-9780595872497","title":"Paradise by Paradise","description":"\u003cp\u003eA novel about the disappearance of an enigmatic poet\/prodigy, Roland Paradise, as told through the words of Paradise and the testimony of those who knew him and those he knew.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a nonlinear structure, it unravels the story of Paradise from boy genius to watchmaker, to wartime codebreaker, to writer, to teacher, to hermetic genius. Roland Paradise the father, the son, the prodigy, the epicist, the enigmatist. The rumors, the stories, the accusations. Where is he? Is he? Was he ever.?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis mind was a cryptish place, an enigma, a harmless cipher machine knocked senseless by the insane attempts of others to decode it as though it held an inherent truth while driving him to another time, to anytime.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoland Paradise was ultimately a sad and lonely figure, a possibly delusional reclusive intellectual for whom life held little joy. For all his brilliance, he never learned life's simplest lessons. A compulsive fabulist whose life and disappearance was more fantastic than any of the stories he invented or the lies he couldn't help telling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Howard Burman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0595872492\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780595872497\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2017","brand":"Howard Burman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48435583746303,"sku":"9780595872497","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_de1f91b2-f67f-489f-984e-7f37e5ebe752.jpg?v=1777151351","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/paradise-by-paradise-howard-burman-9780595872497","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}