{"product_id":"9780692767269","title":"Ginger Smith and Billy Gee: An Optimistic and Utopian Tale","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this singular abstracted land, six characters drive forward the story in \"Ginger Smith and Billy Gee\" by the painter Frances Barth. In the family of a graphic novel, but also like a graphic poem, this is a book in two acts, with interspersed dreams of the main character Ginger. It turns its focus cinematically on the darkly comic relationship developing between Ginger, a painter, and Billy, an aspiring writer, after Ginger is dumped by Billy's best friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour other characters contriibute to the richness of the story. Hiker 1 and Hiker 2 are like figures in a Greek Chorus commenting on the action and entering and leaving the story line, and Male and Female add a Freudian coda to the proceedings. This is a winsome and jaunty artist tale, humorous, poetic and symbolic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA full color book with all original drawings and text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frances Barth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49784889639152,"sku":"9780692767269","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692767269","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}