{"product_id":"9780143107750","title":"Pal Joey: The Novel and The Libretto and Lyrics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor its 75th anniversary and Frank Sinatra’s centennial: the Jazz Age masterpiece that inspired the iconic Sinatra film and the hit Broadway musical, and featuring the musical’s libretto and lyrics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e On the seedy side of Chicago nightlife in the 1930s, Joey Evans is a poor man’s Bing Crosby—a big-talking, small-time nightclub crooner down on his luck but always on the make. In slangy, error-littered letters signed “Pal Joey,” he recounts his exploits with brash nightclub managers, shady business partners, and every pretty girl (“mouse”) he meets. Charismatic yet conniving, Pal Joey is a smooth operator whose bravado and big ideas disguise a far less self-assured soul, caught up in the rags-to-riches dream of the Jazz Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally serialized in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and the inspiration for the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical of the same name and the 1957 film starring Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, and Rita Hayworth, \u003ci\u003ePal Joey \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of a true “heel,” as complex and memorable as any antihero in American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011779870960,"sku":"9780143107750","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143107750_p0.jpg?v=1769911816","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143107750","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}