{"product_id":"death-in-midsummer-and-other-stories-new-directions-paperbook","title":"Death in Midsummer","description":"\u003cp\u003eNine stories by Mishima, chosen by the author himself for this translation. The title piece is the most famous—a vacation gone wrong with the suddenness that real disaster often arrives—but the others are just as sharp, particularly the ones about men who discover that their modernity is thinner than they thought. The New Directions paperback is spare and serious, appropriate for fiction this controlled. Mishima's prose is elegant even when the material is brutal. For readers who want to see how much tension a short story can hold before it snaps.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabound","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48380286632148,"sku":"0811201171","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/5410\/7860\/files\/9780811201179.jpg?v=1785257056","url":"https:\/\/checkout.vagaboundbooks.com\/products\/death-in-midsummer-and-other-stories-new-directions-paperbook","provider":"Vagabound","version":"1.0","type":"link"}