{"product_id":"9780393635102","title":"Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A classic evocation of childhood . . . a masterly mixture of up-country drawl and \u003cem\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/em\u003e.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A hugely popular bestseller when it first appeared in 1957, \u003cem\u003eWhere Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.\u003c\/em\u003e is Robert Paul Smith's nostalgic and often wry look back on his 1920s childhood. Smith agitates against what he perceives as the over-scheduled and over-supervised lives of suburban children as he celebrates privacy, boredom, and time to oneself away from adults. Arcane games and pastimes including mumbly-peg, horse-chestnut collecting, and Indian scalp burns pervade the book, alongside tales of young love—\"I loved the smell of kerosene. Rose smelled of kerosene. I loved Rose.\"—and hard-won observations by Smith the elder. \u003cem\u003eWhere Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.\u003c\/em\u003e still conveys the essence of adventure that forms the basis of a fondly recalled childhood.","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121470456048,"sku":"9780393635102","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393635102_p0.jpg?v=1763697818","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393635102","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}