{"product_id":"universally-adored-and-other-one-dollar-stories-paperback","title":"Universally Adored and Other One Dollar Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Bruce\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 226\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 30, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51776955908384,"sku":"9783988320391","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/24905940d5b7689c422d8b4a6cf176c2.webp?v=1780488995","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/universally-adored-and-other-one-dollar-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}