{"product_id":"macleish-sq-by-dennis-must-9781636280592","title":"MacLeish Sq.","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Proctor, about to turn seventy, spies a disconsolate young man eyeing him from outside his remote studio window. Invited inside from the bitter cold and fed dinner, the visitor, who calls himself Eli, implies that he is no stranger to the man, having been told by his grandmother that \u003cem\u003e“you might take me in.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAstonished to learn that the woman was his wife who decades earlier had aborted their marriage, which lasted \u003cem\u003e“but the length of a wedding candle,”\u003c\/em\u003e the narrator ruefully explains he has since relished living alone by making no lasting connections to anybody or anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhereupon Eli confides, \u003cem\u003e“She also said you had profaned my mother,”\u003c\/em\u003e the daughter John Proctor never knew he had. Thus commences \u003cem\u003eMacLeish Sq.\u003c\/em\u003e, a tale of awakened remorse and familial longing recounted by an ageing recluse when his life is abruptly upturned by the young visitor—captive to a mythical past of his own creation—who intimates that he and the narrator are unlikely strangers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheir unresolved relationship ultimately challenges the reader to question if he and his coincidental guest are one and the same... that Eli may be who the narrator has carefully hidden from himself throughout his adult life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712370200812,"sku":"9781636280592","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15967623482770.jpg?v=1754293078","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/macleish-sq-by-dennis-must-9781636280592","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}