{"product_id":"2940014596381","title":"The Chenango Kid: A Memoir of the Fifties","description":"Two narratives intertwine in \"The Chenango Kid.\" One is the personal story of the author, Roger K. iller, who grew up on Chenango Street, a main artery of the medium-sized industrial city of Binghamton, New York, in the 1950s. The second is the larger story of the 1950s. Each narrative enlarges upon the other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany elements make up the personal: a devastating house fire; a single mother who liked to work and to frequent taverns; a father, mystified by life; less devoted to work than to benignly stalking his son; a half-sister long unknown; a drunken and\/or crazy uncle or two; a boyhood paradise in the hills of Pennsylvania; and a passion for reading and art. All in all an unconventionally conventional working-class youth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Chenango Kid\" also connects Chenango Street to the wider world of the Fifties, a vibrant, explosive decade in art, literature, music, movies, and television--making it The Decade That Never Ends. The popular culture of no other ten-year span in the century continues to exert its influence as strongly or to be revived as often as that of the 1950s.","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182660010224,"sku":"2940014596381","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014596381_p0.jpg?v=1763620683","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014596381","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}