{"product_id":"last-night-9781400078417","title":"Last Night","description":"\u003cb\u003eA spellbinding collection of stories about passion–by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Life is a volatile mess, and no one portrays that mess better than James Salter. . . . All of the stories in \u003ci\u003eLast Night\u003c\/i\u003e are superb.”–\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn powerful stories, Salter portrays men and women in their most intimate moments. A book dealer faces the truth about his life–as it is and never will be again–when he is visited unexpectedly by his brash former girlfriend. A lonely married woman, after a disturbing encounter with a drunken poet at a dinner party, finds herself irresistibly drawn to his animal surrogate, a huge tawny-eyed dog. A lover of poetry must come to terms with his wife’s request to give up what may be his most treasured relationship. And in the title story, a translator, tormented by an agonizing sense of inevitability, assists in his wife’s suicide even as he performs a last betrayal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA haunting symphony of desire, memory, and loss–from a writer whose assured style and emotional insight make him one of literature's most compelling voices.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62342081806723,"sku":"9781400078417","price":21.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9781400078417.jpg?v=1786172016","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/last-night-9781400078417","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}