{"product_id":"2940044693661","title":"Hometown Hero: An Epic Verse Novel (Saga No. 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat if fallen angels got a second chance?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Saga of Terminal City they do, freed from prison to walk the earth, doing good -- if they can.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHometown Hero (No. 2) finds the smalltown of Crummburg marked for destruction by resentful native sons. Can vacationing ex-angel Robert Hunger stop the evil, and save the innocent, before the clock strikes doom?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e29 Chapters, 2400 lines of poetry, all written in modern epic verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSynopsis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven angels must take a holiday.\u003cbr\u003eTo Crummburg, incestuous little town,\u003cbr\u003egoes Robert Hunger, its veins depleted\u003cbr\u003eof founding gold; now reduced to begging\u003cbr\u003eworldly star, Walter Wisdom, to perform,\u003cbr\u003enative son who nurses simmering grudge.\u003cbr\u003eSimmers also subterranean strain\u003cbr\u003eof evil, logs laid down long time ago.\u003cbr\u003eThere crashes too mysterious vessel\u003cbr\u003eof another world, unknown rendezvous\u003cbr\u003eto keep from murder-dealing hill-top camp.\u003cbr\u003eIn town below, the players assume parts:\u003cbr\u003eDr. Daphne Sporg, experimenter\u003cbr\u003ein surgery. Ernie Doomstamp, the creep,\u003cbr\u003eand unlikely idol of film, worldwide.\u003cbr\u003eStaunch alliance of stout mechanics there is,\u003cbr\u003ewhose beloved pet, Trilby Stash, must contend\u003cbr\u003ewith admirers of demonic intent.\u003cbr\u003eEven the heavenly host, looking down,\u003cbr\u003emay intervene in final judgement sprung.\u003cbr\u003eWill latent evil and death's dormant deeds\u003cbr\u003econdemn the whole, or, will some righteous few\u003cbr\u003eremain to broadcast warnings to the world?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis mind corrupted by childhood exposure to horror movie matinees, but equally enthralled by the atmosphere of old churches, Simon Pole writes cosmic poetry from the location of Vancouver, British Columbia. A graduate of Harvard University, Simon has continued his studies of what is hidden in the dark. Writing is also in his blood, being the great-great-grandson of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon Pole","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108071031024,"sku":"2940044693661","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940044693661_p0.jpg?v=1763675903","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940044693661","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}