{"product_id":"pitch-dark-paperback-by-renata-adler-afterword-by-muriel-spark","title":"Pitch Dark Paperback by Renata Adler; Afterword by Muriel Spark","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\u003eNYRB Classics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2013-03-19)\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\u003e168\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781590176146\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e192.78\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e8.0 x 5.0 x 0.5\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA strange, thrilling novel about desperate love, paranoia, and heartbreak by one of America's most singular writers. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.”\u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePitch Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about love. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions pursue her from a house in rural Connecticut to a brownstone apartment in New York City, to a small island off the coast of Washington, to a pitch black night in backcountry Ireland. \u003cbr\u003e       \u003cbr\u003eComposed in the style of Renata Adler’s celebrated novel \u003ci\u003eSpeedboat\u003c\/i\u003e and displaying her keen journalist’s eye and mastery of language, both simple and sublime, \u003ci\u003ePitch Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold and astonishing work of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003eRenata Adler was born in Milan and raised in Connecticut. She received a B.A. from Bryn Mawr, an M.A. from Harvard, a D.d’E.S. from the Sorbonne, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an LL.D. (honorary) from Georgetown. Adler became a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e in 1962 and, except for a year as the chief film critic of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, remained at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e for the next four decades. Her books include \u003ci\u003eA Year in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e (1969); \u003ci\u003eToward a Radical Middle \u003c\/i\u003e(1970); \u003ci\u003eReckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al., Sharon v. Time\u003c\/i\u003e (1986); \u003ci\u003eCanaries in the Mineshaft \u003c\/i\u003e(2001); \u003ci\u003eGone: The Last Days of \u003c\/i\u003eThe New Yorker (1999); \u003ci\u003eIrreparable Harm: The U.S. Supreme Court and The Decision That Made George W. Bush President\u003c\/i\u003e (2004); and the novels \u003ci\u003eSpeedboat \u003c\/i\u003e(1976; winner of the Ernest Hemingway Award for Best First Novel) and \u003ci\u003ePitch Dark\u003c\/i\u003e (1983).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuriel Spark (1918–2006) was a Scottish novelist and poet. Among the best known of her twenty-two novels are\u003ci\u003e The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Girls of Slender Means\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMemento Mori\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Loitering with Intent\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1993 she was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45388237439137,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781590176146","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781590176146.jpg?v=1763480571","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/pitch-dark-paperback-by-renata-adler-afterword-by-muriel-spark","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}