{"product_id":"quiet-dell-paperback","title":"Quiet Dell - 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\u003eJayne Anne Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, a spectacularly riveting novel based on a real-life crime by a con man who preyed on widows: \"a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction\" (Stephen King).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a lonely mother of three, is desperate for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man named Harry Powers, who promises to cherish and protect her, ultimately to marry her and to care for her and her children. Weeks later, Asta and her three children are dead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmily Thornhill, one of the few women journalists in the Chicago press, wants to understand what happened to this beautiful family, particularly to the youngest child, Annabel, an enchanting girl with a precocious imagination and sense of magic. Determined, Emily travels to West Virginia to cover the murder trial and to investigate the story herself, accompanied by a charming and unconventional photographer equally drawn to the case. These heroic characters, driven by secrets of their own, will stop at nothing to ensure Powers is convicted. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA tragedy, a love story, and a tour de force of obsession, Jayne Anne Phillips's \u003ci\u003eQuiet Dell\u003c\/i\u003e \"hauntingly imagines the victims' hopes, dreams, and terror\" (\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e). It is a mesmerizing and deeply moving novel from one of America's most celebrated writers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJayne Anne Phillips is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel \u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLark and Termite\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Motherkind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShelter\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMachine Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, and the widely anthologized collections of stories, \u003ci\u003eFast Lanes \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBlack Tickets\u003c\/i\u003e. A National Book Award and National Book Critic's Circle Award finalist, Phillips is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Bunting Fellowship, the Sue Kaufman Prize, and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She is Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey, where she established The Writers At Newark Reading Series. Information, essays and text source photographs on her fiction can be viewed at JayneAnnePhillips.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.07 x 8.19 x 5.31 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53096278819040,"sku":"9781439172544","price":20.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/UEMNglKaA39781439172544.webp?v=1781670836","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/quiet-dell-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}