{"product_id":"times-a-thief-paperback","title":"Time's a Thief - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eB. G. Firmani\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's the mid-1980s in gritty, vibrant New York City when Francesca \"Chess\" Varani strikes up a volatile friendship with drama-queen classmate Kendra Marr-Löwenstein. Drawn into the orbit of Kendra's Salingeresque family, Chess moves into their Greenwich Village home when she graduates from Barnard and takes a job assisting the infamous literary intellectual Clarice Marr. There she receives the sentimental education and emotional roughing up New York bestows on all its young hopefuls--including a doomed love affair with Clarice's troubled son. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNarrating her story twenty years on, from the winter of the 2008 financial crisis, a sadder but wiser Chess evokes her youth with all the poignancy of time passing--and all the weight of choices made and not made.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eB. G. Firmani is a graduate of Barnard College and holds an MFA from Brown. Her short fiction has been published in \u003ci\u003eBOMB Magazine, The Kenyon Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBellevue Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47495032111325,"sku":"9781101974131","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/ZtXOQoI35s9781101974131.webp?v=1771966849","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/times-a-thief-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}