{"product_id":"streetcars-and-other-vehicles-ronald-sparling-9780995286115","title":"Streetcars and Other Vehicles: Stories","description":"An elderly woman yearns for the love of a man she's only watched from across their courtyard. A boy struggles for the approval of a father whose values he can never share. An expat in Beijing deals with the repercussions of his lifestyle of excess. And an old man struggles to separate who he once was from who he has become. From the opening lines of the first story in which a young bride looks to Ann Landers for advice regarding her husband's bizarre sexual requests, readers enter a world of the marginalised and the hapless. In this collection of stories, six of which have appeared in North American literary journals, Sparling's storytelling is at once sympathetic and merciless. Stripping the veneer from the privileged and the deprived, the young and the old, his stories reveal the desperation with which they pursue dreams both worthwhile and vain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ronald Sparling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0995286116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780995286115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Third Wheel Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.46d","brand":"Ronald Sparling","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48799530713343,"sku":"9780995286115","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/streetcars-and-other-vehicles-ronald-sparling-9780995286115","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}