{"product_id":"2940044254176","title":"Blues for Beginners: Stories and Obsessions","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten in a distinctive voice, with the soul and rhythm of the blues, Judith\u003cbr\u003ePodell's stories cover a range of obsessions that include the best of 20th\u003cbr\u003eCentury angst: cigarettes, psychoanalysis, sex, love, death, and cats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking in the same tradition of Woody Allen, Grace Paley and Nora\u003cbr\u003eEphron, Podell's observations about life, love and loss would be\u003cbr\u003eheartbreaking if they weren't so funny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title story, “Blues for Beginners,” a riff on how to write the blues, struck such a familiar chord when it was originally published, it was instantly claimed by the world at large as something that belonged to all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the other nine stories, Podell continues to hit all the right notes -- bringing us characters we all might have known and situations we might have been in ourselves. If we’d been lucky enough to live in Greenwich Village in the 70s. Or Washington, DC in the 80s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bacon Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47148340674800,"sku":"2940044254176","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940044254176_p0.jpg?v=1763661062","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940044254176","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}