{"product_id":"2940150405035","title":"TIL MORNING","description":"He was the dreamy pop star at the top of the charts. She was the most renowned female journalist of her time. They had fame, power, and money. The last thing they needed was love.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBased on the real life love affair of 1950s singer Jonnie Ray and columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, TIL MORNING is the love story of the sexually conflicted Ray, who drove fans into a frenzy with songs like \"Little White Cloud that Cried\" and \"Cry,\" and Kilgallen, fifteen years his senior, who was the picture of decorum as a Broadway columnist and panelist on the TV show, \"What's My Line.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTheir excess shocked even the most hardened partygoers, from New York's Stork Club to Detroit's Flame Showbar. They traveled among the elite -- Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Duke Ellington, Lennie Bruce, JFK -- but they were also surrounded by hangers-on like Johnnie's irascible manager, Morrie, and Dorothy's husband, Dick who had his own demons to fight.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSeeking salvation and fighting to protect their lives and careers, Johnnie and Dorothy used everything at hand: sex, betrayal, their extraordinary wit, and drink.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhen both their lives were threatened by alcohol, by criminal charges, and by Dorothy's husband, Johnnie pulled away and Dorothy sought professional redemption that ended in her very mysterious death, still unsolved to this day.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTold from their two unforgettable and utterly original points of view, TIL MORNING is a love story that every book group will devour, set during the country's period of greatest change (the late 1950s and early 60s), about two complex people as difficult to judge as they are to fully understand.","brand":"LDLA, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068387377392,"sku":"2940150405035","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150405035_p0.jpg?v=1763745197","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150405035","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}