{"product_id":"2940012806604","title":"Elysiana","description":"Gwendalynn Anders, a mid-Western girl who's never seen the ocean, wonders what was in that joint she smoked a week before waking up on Elysiana, and why it feels like the trip will last the entire summer of 1969.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJack Halcyon, living atop an abandoned twenty story hotel, wonders how he's able to ponder the incongruities of life after leaving a big chuck of his brain at the scene of an accident. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorough Council President Norman Harlan wonders what cruel God put him on  an equal footing with Avery Volpe, the fearsome Captain of the Beach Patrol. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwelve miles long and a mile wide, Elysiana is an island off the coast of New Jersey sitting astride the convergence of powerful fault lines--social, political and existential.  It's a place of beauty and insanity, shared by the angelic and profane.  Where cops, criminals, prodigies and the promiscuous find themselves at the haphazard mercy of a lunatic providence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther players include a globe-trotting whiz kid, an Italo-Hispanic crime boss, a surfing aesthete and his vulgar roommate, a career car stereo thief and a seven-year-old girl who's probably spent too much time with the dead bodies in the dunes.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis is a story that could have only happened on the Jersey Shore during the summer of the '69.  A time when the social fabric was tearing apart, in a place where that fabric had never been very well knit together.","brand":"The Permanent Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180579864816,"sku":"2940012806604","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012806604_p0.jpg?v=1763572588","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012806604","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}