{"product_id":"scavengers-and-other-stories-0595312462","title":"Scavengers: and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0595312462\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bates, Barclay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories in Scavengers are about people fighting to gain or hold onto some good. For the six-year-old heroine of \"Dixie Lee\" it is innocence, threatened by her kidnapper. Gilda, the young English teacher of \"Scavengers,\" disappointed in love, wants a baby by artificial insemination. Middleton, the bumbling and incorrigible romantic of \"Following Keats,\" seeks love in Italy. In \"Fish or Fowl\" Isabel Larkin, lost in La-La land, seems uncertain about her identity-but not about doing what is right. Jeff Franklin, in \"This Day in Yankee History,\" tries mightily to convey his respect and liking for a distrustful young black boy he meets at the ballpark. These and others-a handsome alcoholic, a sex-obsessed homeless man, an ambitious cop, a professor drawn toward violence, a guilt-ridden man with a snuff movie-all struggle to possess a small part of what they have lost, thrown away, or never had.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67944013168928,"sku":"NEW0595312462","price":13.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61nvDk7kxdL.jpg?v=1792789754","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/scavengers-and-other-stories-0595312462","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}