{"product_id":"9781453545331","title":"The Ocean Roars: Sketches and Stories From the 50s and 60s","description":"My lifelong passion has been for great literature, great music, great art including  \u003cbr\u003esculpture and architecture, and great philosophy.  \u003cbr\u003eI had some talented English teachers in high school and at the junior college in St.  \u003cbr\u003eJoseph, MO.; also at Kansas University in Lawrence, KS., with extra credits from  \u003cbr\u003ethe University of Missouri-Columbia and University of Missouri-Kansas City.  \u003cbr\u003eThis led to my embarking on a teaching vocation myself. I taught on several levels  \u003cbr\u003eand I should have been able to use the experience to my benefit. Instead I had  \u003cbr\u003ea breakdown that took me a while to recover from. While I was floundering my  \u003cbr\u003eway out of this dilemma, I was hired by the City of Kansas City, MO. for a clerical  \u003cbr\u003eposition and was assigned to their Municipal Farm (a still flourishing prison farm)  \u003cbr\u003ewhich eventually evolved into the Municipal Correctional Institution. I intended and  \u003cbr\u003eexpected that this would be a temporary expedient for me. I ended up staying for  \u003cbr\u003ethirty years, mostly as a records officer at the prison.  \u003cbr\u003eI've never written about those years, but that may yet occur provided time allows.  \u003cbr\u003eDuring those thirty years I was able to partake of the City's rich cultural life and I  \u003cbr\u003eread, read, read and also continued to write all through that period.  \u003cbr\u003eHere are some stories from an earlier period of my life before most of these  \u003cbr\u003elatter things happened. Eventually I broadened my horizon to include an interest  \u003cbr\u003ein German literature and currently I'm working at developing and honing my  \u003cbr\u003etranslation skills, hoping to make a contribution to the literary challenge of being  \u003cbr\u003ea translator.","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143329595632,"sku":"9781453545331","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453545331_p0.jpg?v=1763850024","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453545331","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}