{"product_id":"the-blue-star-9780316008051","title":"The Blue Star","description":"Seven years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Tony Earley's bestseller \u003ci\u003eJim the Boy\u003c\/i\u003e. Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and wise story of young love on the eve of World War Two. Jim Glass has fallen in love, as only a teenage boy can fall in love, with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the Navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in his absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven, and gives a young man's emotions a grown man's gravity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With the uncanny insight into the well-intentioned heart that made \u003ci\u003eJim the Boy\u003c\/i\u003e a favorite novel for thousands of readers, Tony Earley has fashioned another nuanced and unforgettable portrait of America in another time -- making it again even realer than our own day. This is a timeless and moving story of discovery, loss and growing up, proving why Tony Earley's writing \"radiates with a largeness of heart\" (\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTony Earley\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eJim the Boy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Star\u003c\/i\u003e. His fiction has earned a National Magazine Award and appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. Earley was chosen for both \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's inaugural best \"20 Under 40\" list of fiction writers and Granta's \"20 Best Young American Novelists.\" He lives with his family in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Samuel Milton Fleming Chair in English at Vanderbilt University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491677704466,"sku":"9780316008051","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bb250a61-6791-41c5-8300-dd7fef96eef7.jpg?v=1730548623","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-blue-star-9780316008051","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}