{"product_id":"the-beautiful-wishes-of-ugly-men","title":"The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men","description":"Men attempt to negotiate between their baroque imaginations and the realities of their actual lives in this dark, comic, nuanced, sexed-up collection. Adam Prince's debut book \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men\u003c\/i\u003e is a seduction in its own right, a striptease that peels all the way down to the soul. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The stories feature meth users and junior-high math teachers, old and young, dismal-apartment-poor and McMansion-rich,\" writes Michael Ray Taylor. \"But at their core, each of the protagonists desperately asks the same question as Jim, the narrator's friend in a surprisingly disturbing story called 'No Women Tonight' that is barely 300 words long: \"'We're men, aren't we?'\"","brand":"Adam Blair Prince","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44857635864618,"sku":"9780982876664","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/the-beautiful-wishes-of-ugly-men-9675541.jpg?v=1789614559","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/the-beautiful-wishes-of-ugly-men","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}