{"product_id":"eck-a-romance-paperback","title":"Eck: A Romance - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Ready\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoleman Eck is an abortion survivor. Literally. As such, he is subject to other people's uses of him for political, religious, and media purposes. Some for whom he \"doesn't look right\" threaten his life. Others know Gole as a lover or true friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhirling together the contemporary outrageous and the serio-comic, Robert Ready's \u003cem\u003eEck: A Romance\u003c\/em\u003e is wholly new fiction, a quest for identity, purpose, love-even what it means to be alive. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e---\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNovelist and critic William Giraldi, author of \u003cem\u003eHold the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAmerican Audacity\u003c\/em\u003e, offers these lines about \u003cem\u003eEck\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Robert Ready's \u003cem\u003eEck: A Romance\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterwork of shimmering prose and uncommon perception. Here is a novelist in consummate control of his material. In its observant integrity, its duet of substance and style, its sustaining grand idea of origins and the unborn living, \u003cem\u003eEck\u003c\/em\u003e calls us back to the nourishing womb of Literature, singing of the great subjects, including the mother\/son dyad and the fates we might or might not be prepared to fathom. Ready's sentences never quit reaching within and without, activating analogues as they go: many lines in this novel have never before been penned. The originality, darkling humor, and probing intelligence of the whole symphonic telling is a marvel that calls up DeLillo at his best. The sheer potency of \u003cem\u003eseeing\u003c\/em\u003e is itself what every novelist must aspire to and what makes every ecstatic reader go \u003cem\u003eAhh\u003c\/em\u003e. This novel is an astonishing accomplishment that will not let you forget it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 8.5 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 20, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42728363622463,"sku":"9781637528839","price":24.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/8acb7b11d736a03273473567a65ced6f.webp?v=1765118233","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/eck-a-romance-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}