{"product_id":"9781497669772","title":"Hardcastle: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e“From now on, there are bound to be two classics of the Great Depression—\u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHardcastle\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1931 William Music is making his way back home to Virginia when he hops off a freight train in Switch County, Kentucky, to find something to eat. For eleven cents—all the money in his pocket—he buys a soda bottle’s worth of moonshine. Farther down the road, he takes two turnips and a handful of string beans from a kitchen garden and beds down for the night in a haystack. It is still dark out when he wakes up to a dog licking his forehead and a man pointing a pistol in his face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Despite the awkward introduction, Music and Regus Bone are soon friends. Bone is a guard at Hardcastle Coal Co., whose owner will do anything to keep his employees from unionizing. For the irresistible wage of three dollars a day, Music—outfitted with an ancient, misfiring revolver and a holster made from a feed sack—hires on as a watchman despite his queasy feelings about the job. His attraction to the young widow of a miner killed by a former guard only deepens his discomfort, and when he and Bone catch a pair of union organizers, they make a decision that will change their lives and Switch County forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Inspired by real events, \u003ci\u003eHardcastle \u003c\/i\u003eis a stirring tribute to the power of friendship and family in a time and place in which the price of integrity is more than a man on his own can bear.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144987754736,"sku":"9781497669772","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781497669772_p0.jpg?v=1772805541","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781497669772","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}