{"product_id":"9781101912447","title":"Nitro Mountain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn astonishing, even shocking debut written with both humor and heart by, as John Casey puts it, “a natural-born writer who inhabits every one of his characters—the good, the bad, and those who swing back and forth.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Set in a bitterly benighted, mine-polluted corner of Virginia, \u003ci\u003eNitro Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e follows a group of people bound together by alcohol, small-time crime and music. There’s Leon, a hapless bass player who can embroil himself in trouble just by getting out of bed in the morning. And his would-be girlfriend, Jennifer, who’s living with Arnett, the town’s most dangerous thug—and hoping Leon will help her poison him. And there’s Arnett himself, a psychopath for the ages—albeit so charming and deranged, so strikingly authentic, that he arrests the reader’s attention at first sight and holds it fast. His mirror image, a singer-songwriter named Jones, has his own moral issues, though at least he’s\u003ci\u003e trying\u003c\/i\u003e to be a good man. The bright if battered soul who pulls us through this story is Jennifer, a vulnerable yet strong woman struggling heroically to survive the endemic hopelessness and violence that have surrounded her since birth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRelentless? Yes, of course, but never remotely gratuitous. Every single moment is shot through with the pain and misery that inspire so much of the music these people love more than life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019809505520,"sku":"9781101912447","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101912447_p0.jpg?v=1763690087","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101912447","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}