{ "item_title" : "Cocktail", "item_author" : [" Lisa Alward "], "item_description" : "Winner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award - Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction - Winner of the New Brunswick 2023 Mrs. Dunster's Award for Fiction -One of the Globe and Mail's Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall - Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 - A Miramichi Reader Best Book of 2023 - A Tyee Best Book of 2023A writer to watch.-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires. A divorced man distracts himself from the mess he's made by flirting with a stranger. These intimate, immersive stories explore life's watershed moments, in which seemingly insignificant details--a pot of hyacinths, a freshly painted yellow wall--and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/77/196/562/1771965622_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "16.95", "online_price" : "16.95", "our_price" : "16.95", "club_price" : "16.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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