{"product_id":"passionate-spectator-eric-kraft-9780312424848","title":"Passionate Spectator","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePassionate Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e, memoirist Peter Leroy and his wife Albertine are living by the skin of their teeth in Manhattan. Casting about for a source of income, Peter purchases a book from a homeless peddler, \u003ci\u003eCreative Self-Promotion for Taxidermists\u003c\/i\u003e, hoping he can adapt its techniques to promote his fledgling business: Memoirs While You Wait. That book opens into a beguiling journey from fiction to truth and back again, involving Peter, his childhood friend Matthew Barber (who is undergoing emergency heart surgery), and Peter's witty, urbane alter-ego, Bertram W. Beath--an erotic opportunist and \"passionate spectator\"of life's pageant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Kraft\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0312424841\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312424848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Eric Kraft","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435349717247,"sku":"9780312424848","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_992d8990-7862-4edd-b7e7-7d804b6a88ff.jpg?v=1777149826","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/passionate-spectator-eric-kraft-9780312424848","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}