{"product_id":"the-emerald-light-in-the-air-stories-9781250074706","title":"The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA masterful story collection-heartbreaking and hilarious-from one of America's greatest writers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim's stories. As they do the things we all do-bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a girlfriend down Madison Avenue, take a kid to the zoo-they're confronted with their own uncooperative selves. These artists, writers, lawyers, teachers, and actors make fools of themselves, spiral out of control, have delusions of grandeur, despair, and find it hard to imagine a future. They talk, they listen, they hope, they dream. They look for communion in a city, both beautiful and menacing, which can promise so much and yield so little. But they are hungry for life. They want to love and be loved. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese stories, all published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e over the last fifteen years, make it clear that Antrim is one of America's most important writers. His work has been praised by his significant contemporaries, including Jonathan Franzen, Thomas Pynchon, Jeffrey Eugenides, and George Saunders, who described \u003ci\u003eThe Verificationist\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the most pleasure-giving, funny, perverse, complicated, addictive novels of the last twenty years. \u003ci\u003eThe Emerald Light in the Air \u003c\/i\u003eis Antrim's best book yet: the story collection that reveals him as a master of the form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-9290\"\u003eDonald Antrim\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250074706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250074703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC029000\"\u003eShort Stories (single author)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC084040\"\u003eWorld Literature | American | 21st Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDonald Antrim is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eElect Mr. Robinson for a Better World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hundred Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Verificationist\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Afterlife\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and an associate professor in the writing program at Columbia University. He is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42688076218605,"sku":"9781250074706","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_d860f2b6-238f-4b64-93b0-7539f506b45d.jpg?v=1649785301","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-emerald-light-in-the-air-stories-9781250074706","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}