{"product_id":"a-jerichos-cobble-miscellany-9781963695571","title":"A Jericho's Cobble Miscellany","description":"\u003cp\u003eA genre-bending work similar to Edgar Lee Masters' \u003cem\u003eA Spoon River Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, this \"miscellany\" is a portrait of a fictional New England small town over the past several hundred years, celebratory and insightful, its stories recounted by more than a hundred voices, those of the living-white, Black, Native American, male, female, gay and of the dead, and also of inanimate objects-a neglected upright piano, a bench along a nature trail in poems, dialogues, roadside markers, tombstones, business brochures, newspaper articles, a playlet, diary entries, oral history transcripts, a stitched sampler, and even a nursery rhyme. Some tales are of quiet happiness, others of roiling passions, moral quandaries, tragedy and comedy; above all they speak to the centrality of community and continuity in our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShachtman, Tom:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Tom Shachtman has published forty books, most recently Echoes, or The Insistence of Memory, and The Memoir of the Minotaur. His histories include The Day America Crashed, Skyscraper Dreams, Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold, and The Founding Fortunes; his social analyses, Rumspringa and The Inarticulate Society; the classic coffee table book, The Most Beautiful Villages of New England; and an eclectic trilogy of short novels about sea lions, Beachmaster, Wavebender, and Driftwhistler. His award-winning documentaries have aired on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and BBC. He holds degrees in experimental psychology and in drama and has taught writing at NYU and lectured at Harvard, Georgia Tech, the Library of Congress, Stanford, and other institutions.","brand":"Madville Publishing LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52196556767506,"sku":"9781963695571","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_116508ff-ff4e-4657-b7fa-71dd3cb0f402.jpg?v=1776154210","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-jerichos-cobble-miscellany-9781963695571","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}