{"product_id":"9780760748848","title":"The Stones of Summer","description":"Originally published to glowing reviews in 1972. Dow Mossman's extraordinary debut is a sweeping coming-of-age novel that developed a passionate cult following -- even as it went out of print for more than twenty years. It recently inspired director Mark Moskowitz's award-winning documentary film Stone Reader, which was embraced by readers across the country and described by Peter Rainer in New York magazine as \"a marvelous literary thriller that gets at the way books can stay with people forever.\" Part mystic, part poet, the young, precocious Dawes Williams is learning to curse and shoot firecrackers while trying to understand the larger mysteries of life, his family, and literature. As a teenager, he's stifled by ennui in his hometown of Rapid Cedar. Iowa. Drinking with his buddies, shooting pool, cruising for sex. Dawes tries to be one of the guys, but is set apart by his sensitivity, odd cultural references, and artistic sensibility. Labeled the town eccentric, he becomes increasingly unsettled and, as the turbulence of the 1960s begins to erupt, finds himself fighting for his sanity. Rendered with breathtaking artistry and emotional depth. The Stones of Summer captures the beauty and pain of postwar America, revealing in layer upon layer of richly observed detail the maturation -- the very soul -- of an artist. Remarkable in its ambition and imaginative energy. The Stones of Summer is an epic novel as capacious and particular, as brooding and ebullient, as mystifying and beautiful, as America itself.  ","brand":"Sterling","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48728897978608,"sku":"9780760748848","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780760748848_p0.jpg?v=1768851547","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780760748848","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}