{"product_id":"9781465328717","title":"A Decent Girl Always Goes to Mass on Sunday","description":"Angela, a young Italian-American girl, poorly educated and woefully naïve, works in a shoe factory along with her best friend Rose.  Theirs is a peculiar friendship based not upon affection and trust, but upon self-interest.  When a too-handsome, mysterious one-armed Korean War veteran becomes the new factory foreman, he precipitates a bitter rift in the friendship and, at the same time, creates chaos in the factory.   \u003cbr\u003e      This is a serio-comic novel which takes place in the fifties after the last \"good\" war and the first \"bad\" war, a time of transition when we'd lost our innocence but weren't ready to plunge into the dark world of cynicism or the bright world of a new idealism, both brought about by the divisive Vietnam War.  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124689617136,"sku":"9781465328717","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781465328717_p0.jpg?v=1763683874","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781465328717","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}