{"product_id":"peru","title":"Peru","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Gordon Lish\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781628976960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781628976977\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 4th, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGordon Lish’s masterpiece, a story of the violence and horror beneath the facade of ordinary American life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeru\u003c\/em\u003e begins with its narrator announcing, “There is nothing which I will not tell you if I can think of it.” Gradually, the story of a dark childhood secret unfolds: in 1940, six-year-old Gordon murdered his harelipped rival, Steven Adinoff, in a Long Island sandbox . . . unless he didn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeeking the truth behind this gruesome memory, \u003cem\u003ePeru\u003c\/em\u003e's narrator weaves together strands of disconnected, mesmerizing trivia, resurrecting Proustian details from the mundane suburban childhood that may (or may not) have spawned a killing: the sense of heaviness and tedium on an endless summer day; the squishy sounds of a hoe digging into flesh. Ambiguous, complex, inventive, and subversively comic, \u003cem\u003ePeru\u003c\/em\u003e is a compendium of observations about memory, violence, obsession, and horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGordan Lish\u003c\/strong\u003e lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49326501626011,"sku":"9781628976960","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":49326501658779,"sku":"9781628976977","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0594\/2915\/9067\/files\/DAP_CoverPlaceholderImage.jpg?v=1786994364","url":"https:\/\/dalkeyarchive.store\/products\/peru","provider":"Dalkey Archive Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}