{"product_id":"this-is-the-dream-owen-thomas-9781734630343","title":"This is the Dream","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the Dream\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, ten stories less about dreaming than not dreaming. Ten stories about pulling free the gossamer mask of illusion and seeing the face of what has been true - about ourselves, about the people we choose to love, and about our path through the woods - from the very beginning.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOHN.\u003c\/b\u003e The bus driver whose lunchtime encounter with Andromeda reunites him with the one person he has spent a lifetime choosing to avoid. (\"\u003ci\u003eEverything Stops\u003c\/i\u003e\").\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWYATT.\u003c\/b\u003e The Appalachian who wakes from a dream that his wife has been abducted by aliens to find that she has gone missing and wishing the explanation could be so benign. \u003ci\u003e(\"Little Green Men\"\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRUTH. \u003c\/b\u003eThe chocolate-quality inspector whose compartmentalized solitude threatens complete suffocation until a renowned romance novelist reveals the paper-thin wall that separates despair and hope. (\u003ci\u003e\"Paper Walls\"\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKATHY.\u003c\/b\u003e The identical twin, so desperate to be original that she sacrifices her authenticity to a stranger on a plane, lying herself a new identity without any thought to the consequences. (\u003ci\u003e\"Failure to Thrive - Act One: Flying and Lying\"\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKATJA and JUNE. \u003c\/b\u003eThe novelist and the reporter, bound by history, separated by an ocean, and united in a struggle to reconcile their own hearts one letter at a time. (\u003ci\u003e\"Failure to Thrive - Act Two: Katja and June\"\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eK.P. SORENSON.\u003c\/b\u003e The convention speaker with a renewed hope of becoming a literary demiurge, looking for validation from an audience of would-be fans, but finding instead the very last man she expects and the only woman who can separate fact from fiction. (\u003ci\u003e\"Failure to Thrive - Act Three: The Birds\"\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDANNY. \u003c\/b\u003eThe laid-off, newly separated factory worker whose life is in such dramatic contrast to that of his next-door neighbor, and George Clooney, that robbing a convenience store seems like his best option. (\u003ci\u003e\"Hating George Clooney\"\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePETER. \u003c\/b\u003eThe teenager who, forced to spend Christmas in Hawaii with his younger sister, his parents, and the friends of his father not seen since college, discovers that reality is only a state of mind. (\u003ci\u003e\"Island Santa\"\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZOE. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Hollywood intern, working on a movie about a superhero with random powers, managing a telephone relationship with an anonymous criminal, and excavating the secret structure of creation. (\u003ci\u003e\"Random Man\"\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCALI.\u003c\/b\u003e The high school loner whose dreams of a dead classmate lead her to the razor's edge between living and not living. (\u003ci\u003e\"This is the Dream\"\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Owen Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1734630345\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781734630343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Otf Literary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.08d","brand":"Owen Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49082890060031,"sku":"9781734630343","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-is-the-dream-owen-thomas-9781734630343","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}