{"product_id":"universally-adored-and-other-one-elizabeth-bruce-9783988320391","title":"Universally Adored and Other One Dollar Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003eExquisite short stories that give me hope\u003c\/strong\u003e.\" John McNally, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Ralph: A Novel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eUniversally Adored and Other One Dollar Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, Elizabeth Bruce gives readers 33 ways of looking at a dollar. Her empathetic, humorous, and disarming embrace of plain-spoken people searching for a way out, charms and provokes. These are bittersweet stories of resilience and defiance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"Universally Adored,\" a color-obsessed artist draws a facsimile of a dollar-a masterpiece universally adored-to win her girlfriend back. While checking for spare change in the laundry, in \"Bald Tires\" a Tennessee housewife with a malcontent husband finds an unused condom in his Sunday trousers. In \"The Forgiveness Man,\" a runaway teen with a newborn follows a vagabond healer absolving the bedraggled godless through hugs of forgiveness. And in \"Magic Fingers, a ladies' room attendant tracked down by her abusive ex finds refuge in a cheap motel with a 1970s era bed massager. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRiffing on the intimate object of a dollar, Bruce's humane short fictions-from a great mashed potato war to the grass Jesus walked on-ring with the exquisite voices of characters in analog worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Bruce\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3988320390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783988320391\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vine Leaves Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.57d","brand":"Elizabeth Bruce","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44540401877247,"sku":"9783988320391","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8496f039-b485-4e2e-b236-0a541ba868ef.jpg?v=1700587693","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/universally-adored-and-other-one-elizabeth-bruce-9783988320391","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}