{"product_id":"the-bar-at-twilight-9781954276031","title":"The Bar at Twilight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn incomparable storyteller serves up an enchanting concoction of art, love, and longing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Frederic Tuten's stories are filled with art, dreams, yearning, and a past that he captures beautifully and deftly and then lets go. \u003ci\u003eThe Bar at Twilight\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful, evocative collection.\" --\u003cb\u003eMeg Wolitzer\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Interestings\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Female Persuasion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fifteen masterful stories, Frederic Tuten entertains questions of existential magnitude, pervasive yearning, and the creative impulse. A wealthy older woman reflects on her relationship with her drowned husband, a painter, as she awaits her own watery demise. An exhausted artist, feeling stuck, reads a book of criticism about allegory and symbolism before tossing her paintings out the window. Writing a book about the lives of artists he admires--Cezanne, Monet, Rousseau--a man imagines how each vignette could be a life lesson for his wife, the artist he perhaps admires the most.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhether set in Tuten's beloved Lower East Side, Rome's Borghese Gardens, or a French seaside resort, these stories shift seamlessly between the poignancy of memory into the logic of fairytales or dreams, demonstrating Tuten's exceptional ability to transmute his passion for art and life to the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tuten, Frederic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bellevue Literary Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954276031\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Frederic Tuten","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39799873503307,"sku":"9781954276031","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_e8542561-4439-4165-b338-fe8cd3fb7888.jpg?v=1657032700","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/the-bar-at-twilight-9781954276031","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}