{"product_id":"success-stories-astute-and-forceful-moral-fables-of-greed-violence-and-upward-mobility-0060927194","title":"Success Stories: Astute and Forceful Moral Fables of Greed, Violence, and Upward Mobility","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0060927194\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Banks, Russell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Sucess Stories, an exceptionally varied yet coherent collection, Russell Banks proves himself one of the most astute and forceful writers in America today. Queen for a Day, Success Story, and Adultery trace fortunes of the Painter family in there pursuit of and retreat from the American dream. Banks also explores the ethos of rampant materialism in a group of contemporary moral fables. The Fish is an evocating parable of faith and greed set in a Southeast Asian village, The Gully tells of the profitability of violence and the ironies of upward mobility in a Latin American shantytown, and Chrildren's Story explores the repressed rage that boils beneath the surface of relationships between parents and children and between citizens of the first and third worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51599021965600,"sku":"NEW0060927194","price":13.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61dmYsMIwlL.jpg?v=1778458766","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/success-stories-astute-and-forceful-moral-fables-of-greed-violence-and-upward-mobility-0060927194","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}