{"product_id":"return-to-manure-raymond-federman-9781573661331","title":"Return to Manure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFierce, witty, and self-reflexive tale of one man's struggle to contend with a traumatic and war-torn childhood.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1942, after hiding to escape the Nazis, our narrator (named, simply, Federman) finds his way to Vichy France. Unwanted by his relatives, he is forced to spend the remainder of the war as an unpaid laborer. For three wordless years on the farm, this thirteen-year-old is assailed by suffering, death, sex, and the back-breaking labor of shoveling manure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixty years later, in the United States, Federman--the author? the narrator? both?--wrestles with nostalgia and bitterness. He finally returns to the farm with his wife, but once the journey is complete he no longer knows why he has made it, nor what he expected to find. Through the merger of fact and fiction, storytelling and reality, memoir and imagination, \u003ci\u003eReturn to Manure \u003c\/i\u003eextends and enhances Raymond Federman's brilliant ability to side-step narration's limits and impossibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Raymond Federman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1573661333\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573661331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e FC2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.56w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/25\/2006","brand":"Raymond Federman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47637260992767,"sku":"9781573661331","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9c5d198a-6f93-4a12-bd91-0879ad48ca17.jpg?v=1765115032","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/return-to-manure-raymond-federman-9781573661331","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}