{"product_id":"precis-bill-mesce-9781936205554","title":"Precis","description":"\u003cp\u003eAward-winning novelist, screenwriter and playwright Bill Mesce, Jr. turns, for the first time, to short fiction in a gallery of pieces ranging from the familiar (an encounter at a winter-whipped commuter bus stop in \"North\") to the arcane (a lost cavalry patrol in the Civil War-set \"Precis\"); the sweet (a hopeful tete a tete at Parisian cafe in \"Ad Vivum\") to the bittersweet (a drifter marking time between busses in \"Ante Meridiem\"); the intimate (an altar boy's private rebellion in \"Crusade\") to the epic (the Vietnam War novella, \"Diamond Red.\" Mesce's stunning first collection of short fiction grafts sharp images onto a landscape filled with compelling characters, characters who laugh and love and ache. His stories carry and a sense of immediacy, the truth of experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bill Mesce\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1936205556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936205554\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen F. Austin University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.41d","brand":"Bill Mesce","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486390661375,"sku":"9781936205554","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_89bfbd01-3ee7-42e9-8959-9ca1b2e64ca5.jpg?v=1778055231","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/precis-bill-mesce-9781936205554","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}