{"product_id":"music-of-the-swamp-9781565120167","title":"Music of the Swamp","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page.\" --\u003ci\u003eSouthern Living\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLewis Nordan's fiction invents its own world--always populated by madly heroic misfits. In \u003ci\u003eMusic of the Swamp, \u003c\/i\u003e he focuses his magic and imagination on a boy's utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father--a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten-year-old Sugar Mecklin's world with dazzling clarity: the smells, the tastes, and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar, somewhat bizarre, Delta town. Sugar discovers that what his daddy says is true: \"The Delta is filled up with death\"; but he also finds an endless supply of hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ALA Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNordan, Lewis:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eLewis Nordan was a professor of creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh for many years and the author of seven books of fiction and a memoir. His awards include three American Library Association Notable Book citations, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for fiction, the Mississippi Authors Award for fiction, and the Southern Book Critics Award for fiction. He died in 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Algonquin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473823338770,"sku":"9781565120167","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1cbd6e26-89d0-4aef-bd46-b3823d12dd35.jpg?v=1730203862","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/music-of-the-swamp-9781565120167","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}