{"product_id":"9781771663670","title":"The Third Person","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwo's company, three's a crowd--and sometimes it's more than that.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Third Person\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of uncanny short stories by Emily Anglin, a sequence of tense professional and personal negotiations between two people is complicated when a third person arrives. Within these triangulated microworlds, disorienting gaps open up between words and reality: employees dissolve from job titles, neighbours overstep comfortable boundaries, voices distanced by space or time make their presence felt. Uneasiness builds among these separate but entangled lives. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   Anglin's darkly humorous stories contemplate situations in which characters refashion themselves to fit a new competitive milieu. \u003ci\u003eThe Third Person\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how people can become complicit in these milieus, even desire them, often while being led into the loneliness they can instil.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Book*hug Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46434994618609,"sku":"9781771663670","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781771663670_p0.jpg?v=1765529796","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781771663670","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}