{"product_id":"smoke-city","title":"Smoke City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2019 IPPY Award Silver Medalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2019 IBPA Ben Franklin Award Silver Medalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePowell's Books Best Fiction of 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Rosson is a talent to be watched.\" - Jason Heller, NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarvin Deitz has some serious problems. His mob-connected landlord is strong-arming him out of his storefront. His therapist has concerns about his stability. He's compelled to volunteer at the local Children's Hospital even though it breaks his heart every week.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh, and he's also the guilt-ridden reincarnation of Geoffroy Thérage, the French executioner who lit Joan of Arc's pyre in 1431. He's just seen a woman on a Los Angeles talk show claiming to be Joan, and absolution seems closer than it's ever been . . . but how will he find her?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Marvin heads to Los Angeles to locate the woman who may or may not be Joan, he's picked up hitchhiking by Mike Vale, a self-destructive alcoholic painter traveling to his ex-wife's funeral. As they move through a California landscape populated with \"smokes\" (ghostly apparitions that've inexplicably begun appearing throughout the southwestern US), each seeks absolution in his own way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSmoke City\u003c\/i\u003e, Keith Rosson continues to blur genre and literary fiction in a way that is in turns surprising, heartfelt, brutal, relentlessly inventive, and entirely his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 408g\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 214 x 165 x 20 (mm)\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781946154040\n                            \n                          \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Keith Rosson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44096839647482,"sku":"9781946154040","price":14.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/c521680ec83521613581d894459df703.jpg?v=1626921924","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/smoke-city","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}