{"product_id":"the-flame-alphabet-paperback","title":"The Flame Alphabet - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBen Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Flame Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe sound of children's speech has become lethal. In the park, adults wither beneath the powerful screams of their offspring. For young parents Sam and Claire, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther. But they find it isn't so easy to leave someone you love, even as they waste away from her malevolent speech. On the eve of their departure, Claire mysteriously disappears, and Sam, determined to find a cure for this new toxic language, presses on alone into a foreign world to try to save his family.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen Marcus is the author of three books of fiction: \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Flame Alphabet, \u003c\/i\u003eand he is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Anchor Book of New American Short Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e His stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's, The New Yorker, Granta, Electric Literature, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Tin House, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eConjunctions.\u003c\/i\u003e He has received the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, three Pushcart Prizes, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York with his wife and children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.01 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 13, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378878804070,"sku":"9780307739971","price":26.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/U6JQboCCx99780307739971.webp?v=1768912553","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-flame-alphabet-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}