{"product_id":"the-yellow-sofa-new-directions-classics","title":"The Yellow Sofa (New Directions Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJos Maria Ea de Queirs  the first great modern Portuguese novelist  wrote The Yellow Sofa with  as he said  \"no digressions  no rhetoric \" where \"everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated.\" The story  a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals  concerns Godofredo Alves  a successful  buoyant businessman who returns home to find his wife \"on the yellow damask sofa... leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man...\" The man is none other than Machado  his best friend and business partner. Godofredo struggles with the public need to defend his honor  and a stronger inner desire for forgiveness and domestic tranquillity. The Babel Guide to Portuguese Fiction notes  \"The genius of this book is how Ea captures all the emotional fluctuations... and with such accuracy. The result is an enjoyable humorous novella that is simultaneously breathtakingly ironic.\" The Yellow Sofa firmly establishes Ea de Queirs in the literary pantheon that includes Dickens  Flaubert  Balzac and Tolstoy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44944909041717,"sku":"ByrdShop_0811213390","price":61.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780811213394_2e5e662e-870d-4ed7-bdf7-054cb610b61b.jpg?v=1770157624","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-yellow-sofa-new-directions-classics","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}