{"product_id":"2940016176079","title":"Twelfth Night","description":"The year is 1857, New Orleans' Golden Era when cotton and rice, sugar, and slavery buoyed the exotic city to rare wealth as America's fourth metropolis. It is half a century since Napoleon ceded Louisiana to the young United States, yet relations between French Creoles and Americans remain strained. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDownriver lies the carré de la ville, last bastion of the old Creole families, while upriver is the Garden District of the American nouveau riche. The neutral ground is Canal Street. These two widely disparate cultures share neither language nor religion, customs nor cuisine. The xenophobic Catholic Creoles dismiss les Americains as greedy bourgeois boors while the industrious Protestant Americans find the Creoles impossibly aloof and decadent, obsessed with opera, theater, balls, and dueling. Business dealings frequently wrest a crossing of paths, but diehards on both sides of Canal resist social commingling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThose attempting to bridge the schism often flirted with disaster. This is the story of two such pilgrims meeting on Twelfth Night and confronting their fragile fate on Ash Wednesday. Their destiny, unfolding against the tawdry glamour and raw violence of Mardi Gras, is as heady as carnival itself.","brand":"Michael Lewallen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074437169392,"sku":"2940016176079","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016176079_p0.jpg?v=1763630422","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016176079","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}