{"product_id":"smoke-city-paperback","title":"Smoke City - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKeith Rosson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePowell's Books Best Fiction of 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\"Rosson is a talent to be watched.\"\" \u003cstrong\u003e- Jason Heller, NPR\u003c\/strong\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 Th rage, 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 \u003cem\u003eSmoke City\u003c\/em\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKeith Rosson\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Portland, Oregon, and is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Mercy of the Tide\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSmoke City\u003c\/i\u003e. His short fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eCream City Review, PANK, December, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Nervous Breakdown, \u003c\/i\u003e and more. A fierce advocate of public libraries and non-ironic adulation of the cassette tape, he can be found at keithrosson.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 330\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.5 x 9.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692919656511,"sku":"9781946154040","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d2c118b5819c694c5b143a8de87168d0.webp?v=1764997089","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/smoke-city-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}