{"product_id":"9781480408111","title":"Short Stories: Five Decades","description":"\u003cb\u003eA wide-ranging fictional portrait of life in postwar America by an acclaimed \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e short story writer and #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e–bestselling novelist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Irwin Shaw was a star of the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e’s fiction pages in the 1930s and ’40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway to Hollywood, Depression-era saloons to the McCarthy hearings. Among these sixty-three stories are iconic works such as “The Eighty-Yard Run,” a tale of an American dream crippled on Black Monday, and “Main Currents in American Thought,” in which a hack radio copywriter is tormented by the glitz of show business. Through the decades, Shaw’s writing —as demonstrated in these pages—maintains the  clear-eyed  moral purpose, rich in wit and startling insight, of a tough kid with a philosopher’s soul.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125496889584,"sku":"9781480408111","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480408111_p0.jpg?v=1769894160","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480408111","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}