{"product_id":"2940169777680","title":"Elysiana","description":"\u003cp\u003eGwendalynn Anders, a mid-Western girl who¿s never seen the ocean, wonders what was in that joint she smoked a week before waking up on Elysiana and why it feels like the trip will last the entire summer of 1969.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJack Halcyon, living atop an abandoned twenty-story hotel, wonders how he¿s able to ponder the incongruities of life after leaving a big chunk of his brain at the scene of an accident.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBorough council president Norman Harlan wonders what cruel god put him on an equal footing with Avery Volpe, the fearsome captain of the Beach Patrol.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwelve miles long and a mile wide, Elysiana is an island off the coast of New Jersey sitting astride the convergence of powerful fault lines, social, political, and existential. It¿s a place of beauty and insanity, shared by the angelic and profane, where cops, criminals, prodigies, and the promiscuous find themselves at the haphazard mercy of a lunatic providence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOther players include a globe-trotting whiz kid, an Italo-Hispanic crime boss, a surfing aesthete and his vulgar roommate, a career car-stereo thief, and a seven-year-old girl who¿s probably spent too much time with the dead bodies in the dunes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a story that could have only happened on the Jersey Shore during the summer of ¿69, a time when the social fabric was tearing apart, in a place where that fabric had never been very well knit together. \u003cem\u003eElysiana\u003c\/em\u003e is both a fabulist¿s look at a lost time and place and a hurtling thriller. It¿s a tale of two types of transition: the personal and the grand, all played out within the isolated magic of a barrier island.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150430388464,"sku":"2940169777680","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169777680_p0.jpg?v=1769899790","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169777680","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}