{"product_id":"lonely-mesa","title":"Lonely Mesa","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"long-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe grandfather who never moved out of the village the others moved away from. The library on the high street the chain stores never replaced. The friend in the group who is always there because nobody else has been there as long. They became central not because they meant to. The departures of others made them so. They are now what the rest of the picture orients itself around, whether they asked for the job or not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA single mesa rises out of open scrubland, the only height for miles. The plateau around it eroded down half a million years ago. The mesa held. Above, a sky of high cirrus does what the sky here always does. The mesa goes on standing as the only thing tall enough to notice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSits alongside \u003cem\u003eDesert Solitaire\u003c\/em\u003e by Edward Abbey, \u003cem\u003ePlainsong\u003c\/em\u003e by Kent Haruf, or any book read at the table of somebody who has been in one place a long time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Fine Art of Bookmarks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58112175440256,"sku":"TFAOB-S15-B072","price":14.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2346\/9440\/files\/lonely-mesa-fine-art-bookmark-fine-art-bookmark-cover.jpg?v=1780057085","url":"https:\/\/thefineartofbookmarks.com\/products\/lonely-mesa","provider":"The Fine Art Of Bookmarks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}