{"product_id":"the-master-of-petersburg-1","title":"The Master of Petersburg","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Master of Petersburg\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJ M Coetzee\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780140238105\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePenguin Publishing Group\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1995\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e256\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn the fall of 1869 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, lately a resident of Germany, is summoned back to St. Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, Pavel. Half crazed with grief, stricken by epileptic seizures, and erotically obsessed with his stepson's landlady, Dostoevsky is nevertheless intent on unraveling the enigma of Pavel's life. Was the boy a suicide or a murder victim? Did he love his stepfather or despise him? Was he a disciple of the revolutionary Nechaev, who even now is somewhere in St. Petersburg pursuing a dream of apocalyptic violence? As he follows his stepson's ghost - and becomes enmeshed in the same demonic conspiracies that claimed the boy - Dostoevsky emerges as a figure of unfathomable contradictions: naive and calculating, compassionate and cruel, pious and unspeakably perverse.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"The Master of Petersburg | J M Coetzee | Paperback | 9780140238105 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1721322 (temp: 6)","offer_id":48167047135384,"sku":"1721322","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/816jk6sP5eL_59aa66be-599b-4698-9bba-d01de9c3f55d.jpg?v=1771939869","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-master-of-petersburg-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}