{"product_id":"the-nightingales-of-troy-0393335445","title":"The Nightingales of Troy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393335445\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fulton, Alice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutstanding....Alice Fulton reveals herself to be triumphantly at home in the short story.-Boston Sunday GlobeIn 1908, Mamie Garrahan faces childbirth aided by her arsenic-eating sister-in-law Kitty, a nun who grows opium poppies, and a doctor who prescribes Bayer Heroin. \"In the twentieth century, I believe there are no saints left,\" Mamie remarks. But her daughters and granddaughter test this notion with far-reaching consequences. Kitty's arsenic reappears sixty years later in the hands of her distraught niece. A schoolgirl's passion for the Beatles and Melville-a passion both lonely and funny-shapes her life. Each decade is illuminated by endearingly eccentric characters: an anorexic waitress falls for a wealthy college boy in the jazz age...an exuberant young nurse questions science during the Depression...a homely seamstress designs a scandalous dress in the 1950s. The Nightingales of Troy, the first fiction collection by an acclaimed American poet, creates a vividly palpable sense of time and place. Alice Fulton's memorable characters confront the deepest dilemmas with bravery and abiding love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51855980462368,"sku":"NEW0393335445","price":28.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61cdLK58xZL.jpg?v=1781544729","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-nightingales-of-troy-0393335445","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}