{"product_id":"9780982298541","title":"The Slow Creek and Other Stories","description":"It is true, just as Lil tells Walter Henderson in the titular story, that there are no secrets in a small town and nothing is ever entirely forgotten either. F. de Sales Meyers goes behind the walls and into the barns and up the mountains to expose those secrets and tell those stories so they are remembered.\u003cbr\u003e   Tied together by the current of the sexual and psychological human drama that swirls around any place where people gather together in community, the narratives in The Slow Creek and Other Stories  sweep the reader along.  Peopled with small town characters living in the shadow of Big Savage Mountain, these stories unearth a darkness that lies buried in the town’s communal soul, deep as the veins of coal that run under the town. Miners, hucksters, coal pickers, hermits, prostitutes, the dead and others ready to die walk the streets and cemetery on the hill.\u003cbr\u003e  Walter Henderson is one of these. He has come back to the town to die, but there is something he must do first. And there is Arnold Williams who decided at the age of sixty-two that he would become invisible. There are the men who gather at the Asthma Bench to tell lies and jokes and discover a violent truth that haunts one of them. There is the woman who claims she is bringing the author of Roget’s Thesaurus to town and Belle Halloran determined to find her place among those who scorned her. And all the others who seek escape and freedom from that which would drown them.  ","brand":"Abecedarian Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47023418376432,"sku":"9780982298541","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982298541_p0.jpg?v=1763878254","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982298541","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}