{"product_id":"9780743319294","title":"On Saint Ronan Street: A Love Affair","description":"Written by a young soldier in 1976 Cold War West Germany and forgotten for forty years, it glows as fresh today as it was when I composed it in Paris and Heidelberg and other European cities where I traveled in my old orange VW as a single, adventuresome young man. \u003cp\u003eLike many soldiers far from home, I was having the time of my life but idn't know it. I was homesick, and spent many evenings going back to our headquarters in an old Hitler-era kaserne or barracks to lose myself in writing poetry and fiction. This novel was a nostalgic, melancholy, but passionate retrospection to the New England college town where I grew up. It's fiction - but who knows what tendrils of truth, remembrance, and long ago loves sprang up in the soil of imagination. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis romantic coming of age novel tells of the passionate love affair etween a 23-year-old idealistic, talented poet and a beautiful, neglected young married woman in a New England college town set in 1973. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story has waited forty years, and is taking a little time to blossom, like a fine wine uncorked after decades. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe companion volume of poetry is Cymbalist Poems, and the two novels have been reunited (twins separated at birth) in the book titled 27duet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clocktower Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872988930288,"sku":"9780743319294","price":12.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780743319294","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}