{"product_id":"highway-thirteen-stories-hardcover","title":"Highway Thirteen: Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFiona McFarlane\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gripping, enigmatic collection of linked short stories about the reverberations of a serial killer's crimes in the lives of everyday people. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the small town of Barrow, Australia, people go about their ordinary lives. They drive to work through the dense state forest. They raise their families. They flirt and yearn. They lie and confess. Some of them leave home. Some of them return. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Darkness thrums beneath the surface of these ordinary lives: the violence of one man, a serial killer whose murders made Barrow infamous. His twelve victims--women, men, mostly young--are long gone, but their deaths are felt, beyond the forest where they were buried, beyond this country, beyond even this time. In the past, where a young woman on a school trip to Rome sees something she shouldn't have. In the present, where a man confronts an ancient grief on the suburban streets of Texas. In the future, in the hands of journalists and podcast hosts and television actors whose livelihoods hinge on the twin spectacles of loss and violence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eHighway Thirteen\u003c\/i\u003e is a luminous wonder: a book about the collisions between public and private selves, between parents and children, between history and what comes after, between the living and the dead. Fiona McFarlane's roving vision is itself a story about stories--those we tell, retell, forget, sell, disprove, inherit, live through--and a work of extraordinary power and magic.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFiona McFarlane\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Night Guest\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe High Places\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize; and \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Walks Down\u003c\/i\u003e. Her short fiction has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Zoetrope: All-Story\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.95 x 8.47 x 5.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751720386848,"sku":"9780374606268","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2e84244b034aa9197158c46e0a2c7359.webp?v=1779978603","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/highway-thirteen-stories-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}