{"product_id":"the-spot-david-means-9780865478510","title":"The Spot: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Spot is an old blacksmith shed in which three men tweeze apart the intricacies of a botched bank robbery. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot is a park on the Hudson River, where two lovers sense their affair is about to come to an end. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot is at the bottom of Niagara Falls, where the body of a young girl floats as if caught in the currents of her own tragic story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot is in the ear of a Manhattan madman plagued by a noisy upstairs neighbor . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot is a suburban hospital room in which a young father confronts his son's potentially devastating diagnosis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot is a dusty encampment in Nebraska where a gang of inept radicals plot a revolution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot draws thirteen new stories together into a masterful collection that shows David Means at his finest: at once comically detached and wrenchingly affecting, expansive and concise, wildly inventive and firmly rooted in tradition. Means's work has earned him comparisons to Flannery O'Connor (\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e), Alice Munro, Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac (\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e), Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson (\u003ci\u003eChicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\/NPR), Denis Johnson (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), Poe, Chekhov, and Carver (\u003ci\u003eMilwaukee Journal Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e), but the spot he has staked out in the American literary landscape is fully and originally his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Means\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0865478511\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780865478510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.59w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/31\/2011 pg. 24","brand":"David Means","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926683844863,"sku":"9780865478510","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_2591909d-7131-484e-a3f8-f5de5516603d.jpg?v=1681084433","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-spot-david-means-9780865478510","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}