{"product_id":"long-story-short-9781643750613","title":"Long Story Short","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterature is long. Comics are short.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Does Proust get you down? Do you find \u003ci\u003eThe Unbearable Lightness of Being \u003c\/i\u003esimply unbearable? Is \u003ci\u003eThe Inferno \u003c\/i\u003eyour own private hell? Do you long to be conversant about classics like \u003ci\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, the Bhagavad Gita, \u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/i\u003e, and, um, \u003ci\u003eTwilight\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Bestselling illustrator Lisa Brown (\u003ci\u003eThe Airport Book\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Baby, Mix Me a Drink\u003c\/i\u003e) did her homework. \u003ci\u003eLong Story Short\u003c\/i\u003e offers 100 pithy and skewering three-panel literary summaries, from curriculum classics like\u003ci\u003e Don Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Lord of the Flies\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre \u003c\/i\u003eto modern favorites like \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAtonement\u003c\/i\u003e, conveniently organized by subjects including “Love,” “Sex,” “Death,” and “Female Trouble.” Lisa Brown’s \u003ci\u003eLong Story Short\u003c\/i\u003e is the perfect way to turn a traipse through what your English teacher called “the canon” into a frolic—or to happily cram for the next occasion that requires you to appear bookish and well-read.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Algonquin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67872098779314,"sku":"9781643750613","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.hachettebookgroup.com\/products\/long-story-short-9781643750613","provider":"Hachette Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}