{"product_id":"droppings-of-an-optimistic-fatalist-0595385079","title":"Droppings of an Optimistic Fatalist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0595385079\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rega, Paul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Man-with-the-Ass-Hand. A mysterious phone call from a Capote-like Milquetoast about a toe trapped in a bath tub. An encounter between future President John Adams and the discoverer of Uranus - or so he thought. Rampaging Cossacks wreaking havoc in Toledo, Ohio. An intimate eye-witness report of O. Henry's honeymoon night. The Mafia and the magic mozzarella mystique. Death and dying in the hospital: An homage to Alfred Hitchcock. These are but samples of the twisted, odd-ball, tongue-in-cheek, black comedy that comprise the musings (\"droppings\") contained in this book. It's a brief glimpse into the parallel-universe mind of the author, a product of his youthful innocence from an Italian-Catholic, Bronx upbringing coupled with a subsequent career as a doctor contending with the madness and mayhem of emergency medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51951453700384,"sku":"NEW0595385079","price":10.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/droppings-of-an-optimistic-fatalist-0595385079","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}