{"product_id":"death-of-a-man","title":"Death of a Man","description":"\u003ch1\u003eDeath of a Man\u003c\/h1\u003eKay Boyle,Kay Boyle\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003eApril 17 1989\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780811210898\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0811210898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: When \u003cem\u003eDeath of a Man\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1936, the anonymous reviewer in \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e described the novel as a \"Nazi idyll.\" Nothing could be further from the truth. Boyle, who lived in the town of Kitzbühel in the Tirolean Alps during the mid 30s, recalls that \"In 1934, mothers, fathers, children--all barefoot--stood in the ankle-deep snow on the sidewalks of Vienna, their hands out-stretched for help .... Nazism as to them mutely accepted as the one hope for the economy.\" The subtlety and precision honed by Boyle in her acclaimed short stories are used in \u003cem\u003eDeath of a Man\u003c\/em\u003e to describe the tragedy of a society pushed to the edge by circumstance but as yet unaware of the dangers, the incipient evil, of the course it is choosing. In this setting, the passionate relationship between the appealing and vigorous but pro-Nazi Dr. Prochaska and the pampered, neurotic American young woman Pendennis, is a paradigm of the difficulty of individual love in a disordered world.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44125299441709,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_a484e30e-a2df-499d-b525-99caf1524329.jpg?v=1758529088","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/death-of-a-man","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}