{"product_id":"2940151264099","title":"1979","description":"In these thirteen stories, Steve Anderson captures what it meant to come of age in the late 1970s in working-class America. From a family's West Virginia oil wells to trekking through abandoned small-town factories, to a Nevada campground vacation, adolescents find love, strengthen friendships, and create adventures. Each story is tinged with the stark challenges and raw beauty of growing up in a rural, post-Vietnam world of shuttered mills and sprawling train tracks.\u003cbr\u003eFreedom comes from trying to purchase beer underage, stealing a friend's dad's rusted \"work\" car for a joyride, and creating the world's fastest sled for racing down a sheer quarry slope. There are stories of first love, captured against desert backdrops and in motel arcades. Most of all, this collection is about finding one's way to adulthood in a richly revealed time and place in America's Midwest.","brand":"steve anderson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102558208240,"sku":"2940151264099","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151264099_p0.jpg?v=1764008031","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151264099","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}