{"product_id":"late-bloomer-paperback-by-melissa-pritchard","title":"Late Bloomer Paperback by Melissa Pritchard","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eAnchor\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2005-03-08)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e384\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780385721929\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e294.84\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e20.07 x 12.95 x 2.54\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003ePrudence True Parker teaches a course called Advanced Personal Journey at a community college in Arizona, but her own personal journey is not really advancing. She’s divorced, debt-ridden, and starting to feel desperate, when she meets Digby Deeds (alias Mildred Crowley), the author of the wildly successful \u003cb\u003eSavage Passion\u003c\/b\u003e romance series, at her local library. When the dying Deeds offers Prudence the final forty plots of his popular series, her financial needs trump her literary aspirations, and she accepts. To her astonishment, her own life soon begins to outpace \u003cb\u003ePassion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e’s \u003c\/i\u003efevered tales, and she finds herself in the midst of a plot involving psychics, a sexy young Comanche lover, Native American activists, medicine men, and even a few wolves. Quick-witted and laugh-out-loud funny, \u003cb\u003eLate Bloomer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efollows Prue on her madcap journey, as she finds her real life surpassing the wildest flights of her imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eMelissa Pritchard is the author of two short story collections, \u003cb\u003eThe Instinct for Bliss and Spirit Seizures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand two novels, \u003cb\u003ePhoenix\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003cb\u003eSelene of the Spirits\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Pritchard was awarded a Pushcart Prize for “Funktionslust,” which appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review. \u003c\/i\u003eHer story “Salve Regina” was included in \u003cb\u003ePrize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Among numerous other awards, she has received the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and a Howard Foundation Fellowship from Brown University. She is Director of the M.F.A. Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University and is on the faculty of Spalding University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46553043796129,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780385721929","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780385721929.jpg?v=1781723985","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/late-bloomer-paperback-by-melissa-pritchard","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}