{"product_id":"book-i89d","title":"Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes","description":"In a small Michigan town, in the late 1950s, the widow Etta Klein—wealthy and Jewish—has for more than thirty years relied for aid, comfort, and companionship on her Black housekeeper Harriet Gibbs. Between \"Aunt Harry\" and Etta, a relationship has developed that is closer than a friendship, yet not quite a marriage. They are inseparable, at once absurdly unequal and defined by a comic codependence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Forever mourning the early death of her favorite son, Sargent, Etta has all but adopted Aunt Harry's nephew, the precocious, gay seventeen-year-old Oliver, who has been raised by both women. Oliver is facing down his departure to college—and fending off the advances of Etta's cook, Nella Mae—when the household is disrupted by the arrival of a self-proclaimed \"warlock,\" one Maurice LeFleur, who has convinced Etta and Harry that he might be able to contact Sargent in the afterlife …\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLadies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e was the debut of the extraordinary Henry Van Dyke, whose witty and outrageous novels look back to the sparkling, elaborate comedies of Ronald Firbank and forward to postmodern burlesques like Fran Ross's \u003ci\u003eOreo\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contains mature themes.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49351579271472,"sku":"BDi89d","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49351579337008,"sku":"ZEi89d","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49351579402544,"sku":"ZMi89d","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/i89d-Square-cover.jpg?v=1780431334","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-i89d","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}