{"product_id":"in-the-lake-of-the-woods","title":"In The Lake Of The Woods","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nA remarkable novel from the National Book Award-winning author of ‘Going After Cacciato’ and ‘The Things They Carried’, which combines the power of the finest Vietnam fiction with the tension of a many-layered mystery.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn a remote lakeside cabin deep in the Minnesota forests, Kathy Wade is comforting her husband John, an ambitious politician, after a devastating electoral defeat.\u003cbr\u003e\nThen one night she vanishes, and gradually the search for Kathy becomes a voyage into the darkest corners of John Wade’s life, a life of deception and deceit – the life of a man able to escape everything but the chains of his darkest secret.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\n‘Masterfully oblique, inventive and deeply unsettling…a riveting exploration of a tormented and wounded psyche’ Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\n‘Calling Tim O’Brien a Vietnam War novelist is a bit like saying Joseph Conrad was a Polish guy who wrote some good sea tales’ Esquire\u003cbr\u003e\n‘Striking, telling, deeply unsettling. A novel about the moral effects of suppressing a true war story, about the unforgiveable uses of history, about what happens when you try to pretend that history no longer exists’ New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nTim O’Brien was born in Minnesota and graduated from Macalester College in St Paul. He established himself as one of the leading writers of his generation in 1973 when he published ‘If I Die In A Combat Zone’, the compelling account of his own tour of duty in Vietnam, and is widely regarded as the finest novelist the Vietnam War has produced.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45170379227315,"sku":"9780006543954","price":156.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/31rbgV4fqqL.jpg?v=1765282297","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/in-the-lake-of-the-woods","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}