{"product_id":"relation-of-my-imprisonment-a-fiction","title":"Relation of My Imprisonment: A Fiction","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eRelation of My Imprisonment: A Fiction\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRussell Banks\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780060976804\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eEcco\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1996\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e128\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\"The Relation of My Imprisonment\" is a work of fiction utilizing a form invented in the seventeenth century by imprisoned Puritan devines. Designed to be exemplary, works of this type were aimed at brethren outside the prison walls and functioned primarily as figurative dramatizations of the tests of faith all true believers must endure. These \"relations, \" framed by scripture and by a sermon explicating the text, were usually read aloud in weekly or monthly installments during religious services. Utterly sincere and detailed recountings of suffering, they were nonetheless highly artificial. To use the form self-consciously, as Russell Banks has done, is not to parody it so much as to argue good-humoredly with the mind it embodies, to explore and, if possible, to map the limits of that mind, the more intelligently to love it.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Relation of My Imprisonment: A Fiction | Russell Banks | Paperback | 9780060976804 | Used: Good | Back Stacks E 1743295","offer_id":48180516978840,"sku":"1743295","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/712KqB1uUIL.jpg?v=1772226332","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/relation-of-my-imprisonment-a-fiction","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}