{"product_id":"typewriter-satyr","title":"Typewriter Satyr","description":"Welcome to Midvale, a city of liberal-minded (but not too liberal-minded) folk in the heart of Wisconsin. Midvale is home to Oliver Poole, lanky and gray-haired father of four sons, husband of Diana (a prominent divorce lawyer), left fielder for an over-the-hill softball team called the Old Hatters, and sole proprietor of a typewriter repair shop (a trade that one of his sons compares to singing folk music on the street and waiting for someone to drop a nickel in the hat). Midvale is home, too, to Annelise Scharfenberg, a thirty-something, sugar-craving, aspiring Buddhist who works as a late-night music-and-gab-show host at a fringe radio station. When Annelise, a collector of old-fashioned things, walks into Oliver's shop bearing a typewriter scavenged from an alley, a romance ensues, with consequences both comic and tragic. Set during the early years of the Iraq war, \"\"The Typewriter Satyr\"\" is flush with colorful characters, including a Syrian coffeehouse owner who believes the Bush government is after him, a Buddhist monk who grew up in rural Wisconsin, a painter known as the Rabbit Master, and a homeless writer who roams the streets of Midvale in search of a missing shoe. In \"\"The Typewriter Satyr\"\", Dwight Allen has created a world that, as the novelist Michelle Huneven notes, 'speaks to the powerful tides of longing and loneliness surging through all of us'.","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56243712917848,"sku":"9780299229900","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780299229900.jpg?v=1778302814","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/typewriter-satyr","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}