{"product_id":"9780060591779","title":"Intoxicated","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this unforgettable debut novel, John Barlow reveals how the intersection of a Victorian-era family, an irrepressible marketing wiz, and the temperance movement changed the way the world drinks. Sweeping readers back in time to a day and age when beverages didn't come by the can or the cooler and were often hard to come by at all, \u003ci\u003eIntoxicated\u003c\/i\u003e once again proves Barlow to be a writer whose “imagination appears unlimited, almost attuned to a parallel world” (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYorkshire, 1869. When self-made Victorian businessman Isaac Brookes returns home from his wool mill in France, he cannot suspect that a chance encounter on a train will alter the gastronomical landscape of the world. But when Isaac meets, and almost kills, Rodrigo Vermilion — a hunchback midget dressed in rags — Vermilion sees in pragmatic Isaac a grand opportunity to improve his lot in life, and becomes determined to go into business with the Yorkshire man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter the Temperance Soldiers, a band of righteous social moralists who offer Vermilion the inspiration, and the idea he so desperately needs. One taste of his first Temperance Ale — worse, he felt sure, than the ancient slime at the bottom of the pond, old frog juice, and duck droppings scooped up in a glass — and this savvy schemer with a genius for persuasion is off and running. He soon convinces Isaac and his son to invest their fortune in an idea sure to appeal to Victorian sensibilities: Rhubarilla\u003csup\u003e\u003csmall\u003eTM\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e, a fizzy, fruity drink. And so begins the craze that will sweep the world in ways that even the irrepressible Vermilion never could have imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057630724336,"sku":"9780060591779","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060591779_p0.jpg?v=1763766318","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060591779","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}