{"product_id":"smoke-city-paperback","title":"Smoke City - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKeith Rosson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2019 IPPY Award Silver Medalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2019 IBPA Ben Franklin Award Silver Medalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePowell's Books Best Fiction of 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Rosson is a talent to be watched.\" - Jason Heller, NPR\u003c\/b\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 Thérage, 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 \u003ci\u003eSmoke City\u003c\/i\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 330\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.5 x 9.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779512893503,"sku":"9781946154040","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/samiestore.shop\/products\/smoke-city-paperback","provider":"Samie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}