{"product_id":"shootout-with-father-marianne-hauser-9781573661003","title":"Shootout with Father","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA richly textured novel built around the love-hate conflict between a father and his grown son\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The story is told by the son, James, a sculptor of small objet d'art, miniature versions of the armor his father has spent a lifetime collecting. The father's ambiguities become the son's obsession and he finds himself digging deeper and deeper into his father's past in an effort to understand the man before he was a father. He discovers a student filled with romantic dreams and high hopes, a latent homosexual who, after a bizarre episode of dashed expectations, rejects his nature and builds a fortress of denial. These revelations come to light in a suspenseful, many-layered plot that is delivered with a remarkable mixture of sensitivity and biting wit. This work is vintage Hauser, an Oedipal companion piece to \u003ci\u003eThe Talking Room, \u003c\/i\u003e recounting the astonishingly suicidal lengths to which the child in everyone will go to be acknowledged by his or her creator.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marianne Hauser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1573661007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573661003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e F2c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.48h x 5.50w x 0.29d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePW Notes and Reprints\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/27\/2002 pg. 39\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/02\/2002 pg. 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/27\/2002","brand":"Marianne Hauser","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46545732305151,"sku":"9781573661003","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7711b9d5-6ddf-4acf-b4ef-e37e2a5bb169.jpg?v=1738183189","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shootout-with-father-marianne-hauser-9781573661003","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}