{"product_id":"9780980721911","title":"For Better Or Worse","description":"Spring, 1956, Brighton Beach, New York: an old man crossing a street eerily foretells the future of the young man sitting in a car waiting for the red to turn to green...\u003cp\u003eRemember?\u003cbr\u003e... the day a middle-aged woman sat down in a bus, and a Southern Baptist minister gained national prominence?\u003cbr\u003e... the day a mysterious, intermittent beep, beep, beep... ushered in the dawn of the space age?\u003cbr\u003e... the day that ushered in America's dawn of integration-when two U.S. armies stood face to face with bayoneted rifles outside an American high school?\u003cbr\u003e... the day America tottered on the brink of nuclear war?\u003cbr\u003e... the day a line was drawn in the ocean, and the other guy blinked?\u003cbr\u003e... the winter day when America forever lost its innocence?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFOR BETTER OR WORSE\u003cbr\u003eSeven years that changed the history of the world and the complexion of America. Taking place in New York City, Chicago and Central Illinois, the characterizations and situations coinciding with historical events.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaths crossed when he was five years old while crossing a street with his mother on the west side of Chicago, the same old man seen again crossing a street in Brighton Beach, New York... seventeen years later. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough seven years as two familiar young people become an adult man and woman, a husband and wife and, eventually, responsible parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRealistically written, humanly, visually sexual, be there as this love-to-hatred, hatred-to-love marriage entwines through the history of the mid-1950's into the '60's.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metropolis Ink","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50008342069488,"sku":"9780980721911","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780980721911_p0.jpg?v=1784255757","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780980721911","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}