{"product_id":"the-furniture-makers-veronica-dunbar-9781432725372","title":"The Furniture Makers: And Other Tales Lacking Abject Misery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Furniture Makers, And Other Tales Lacking Abject Misery\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection begins with the novella, The Furniture Makers. Circa 1928, Laurence Olivet, a socially reticent bookbinder is on her way to a winter holiday in the country when fate intervenes to strand her in a rural village on the sea. She does not find romance there; nor mystery; nor the redemptive power of simple country living. What she does find is the will to cast aside the safety of a respectable life in order to live a fulfilling one. Her experience not only upends her own life, but is the catalyst that changes the lives of the strangers who take her in, and the basis of a lasting and unlikely friendship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOther tales included in this collection range from the encounter between an aging retiree and a young boy experiencing their first brushes with grief, a family crisis amid war, and a wayward ghost that unexpectedly follows two young children and their father to a most inappropriate residence in their living room.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Veronica Dunbar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1432725378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781432725372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Outskirts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/09\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2008","brand":"Veronica Dunbar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44058280788223,"sku":"9781432725372","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_92c5a4cc-a83d-4fcf-bebb-4c99b8d28180.jpg?v=1685051678","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-furniture-makers-veronica-dunbar-9781432725372","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}