{"product_id":"0025192332609","title":"Big Stone Gap","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's 1978, and Ave Maria Mulligan is the thirty-five-year-old self-proclaimed spinster of Big Stone Gap, a sleepy hamlet in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She's also the local pharmacist, the co-captain of the Rescue Squad, and the director of \u003ci\u003eThe Trail of the Lonesome Pine\u003c\/i\u003e, the town's long-running Outdoor Drama. Ave Maria is content with her life of doing errands and negotiating small details-until she discovers a skeleton in her family's formerly tidy closet that completely unravels her quiet, conventional life. Suddenly, she finds herself juggling two marriage proposals, conducting a no-holds-barred family feud, planning a life-changing journey to the Old Country, and helping her best friend, the high-school band director, design a halftime show to dazzle Elizabeth  Taylor, the violet-eyed Hollywood movie star who's coming through town on a  campaign stump with her husband, senatorial candidate John Warner.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Filled with big-time eccentrics and small-town shenanigans, \u003ci\u003eBig Stone Gap\u003c\/i\u003e is a jewel box of original characters, including sexpot Bookmobile librarian Iva Lou Wade; Fleeta Mullins, the chain-smoking pharmacy cashier with a penchant for professional wrestling; the dashing visionary Theodore Tipton;  Elmo Gaspar, the snake-handling preacher; Jack MacChesney, a coal-mining  bachelor looking for true love; and Pearl Grimes, a shy mountain girl on the verge of a miraculous transformation.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Comic and compassionate, \u003ci\u003eBig Stone Gap\u003c\/i\u003e is is the story of a woman who thinks life has passed her by, only to learn that the best is yet to come.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdriana Trigiani grew up in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, in the 1970s. She has honed her storytelling abilities over a decade of writing and producing some of television's top-rated shows, including the groundbreaking Cosby Show. Trigiani is also an award-winning playwright and documentary filmmaker. She lives in New York City with her husband.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENT.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47089491411184,"sku":"0025192332609","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/0025192332609_p0.jpg?v=1763785539","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/0025192332609","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}