{"product_id":"in-the-drivers-seat-stories","title":"In the Driver's Seat: Stories","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eIn the Driver's Seat: Stories\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHelen Simpson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780307265227\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKnopf\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2007\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eA dark, dazzling, surprisingly funny new collection of stories (\"Masterly\" --Adam Mars Jones, \"The Observer\"; \"A virtuoso performance\" --Jane Shilling, \"The Sunday Telegraph\") about single women and wives in various phases of midlife--anxious mothers, besotted mothers, beset mothers--in a (futile) search for security and consolation. \u003cbr\u003eHelen Simpson's stories are short but by no means small. One story takes the Iraq war as its subject; another describes a smoker's reprieve from death by lung cancer; in another, a simple tale of home maintenance--a woman in a conversation with the carpenter replacing her door after a break-in--becomes a deftly sketched study of grief. In still another, Simpson manages the seemingly impossible--producing laughter at terminal illness and untimely death (this might be the first story in which the amputation of a limb provides a happy ending). And finally, the story entitled \"Constitutional\"--a pun on one of the word's meanings: a walk taken for the benefit of one's health--deals with memory, family, Alzheimer's, oak trees, pregnancy for the over-forties, stolen photographs, and crossword puzzles. \u003cbr\u003eHelen Simpson's stories move and disturb us as they light up the human gift for making the best of it--\"whatever\" it is.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"In the Driver's Seat: Stories | Helen Simpson | Hardcover | 9780307265227 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1563962","offer_id":48322270691480,"sku":"1563962","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/41xpkc6XPDL.jpg?v=1773177184","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/in-the-drivers-seat-stories","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}