{"product_id":"a-registry-of-my-passage-upon-the-earth-stories","title":"A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth: Stories","description":"Used paperback in Very Good condition. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Pulitzer Prize Finalist: This collection of moving short stories is \"a treasure trove of lush scene setting in faraway times and places\" (Alexis Burling, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn a fateful flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Regency London, a bare-knuckle fighter prepares to face his most fearsome opponent, while a young mother seeks a miraculous cure for her ailing son.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt times funny and irreverent, always moving and deeply urgent, these stories--among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner--cap a fifteen-year project. From the Nile's depths to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, from volcano-racked islands to an asylum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, these are tales of ecstasy, epiphany, and what the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e called the \"struggle for survival . . . hand to hand, word to word,\" by \"one of the finest prose stylists in American fiction.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Library Journal Best Book of 2020\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mason, Daniel","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53896338964763,"sku":"mon0000799967","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/18259283482300.jpg?v=1788712417","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/a-registry-of-my-passage-upon-the-earth-stories","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}