{"product_id":"9781504047203","title":"Collected Fiction: The Young Lions, Bread Upon the Waters, Short Stories: Five Decades, and The Troubled Air","description":"\u003cb\u003eThree acclaimed novels plus collected short fiction by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e–bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eRich Man, Poor Man\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Young Lions\u003c\/i\u003e: Irwin Shaw’s \u003ci\u003eNew York Times–\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling debut is widely considered one of the four great World War II novels, along with \u003ci\u003eFrom Here to Eternity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Naked and the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Caine Mutiny\u003c\/i\u003e. Ambitious in its scope and robust in its prose, this “masterpiece” is also deeply humanistic, presenting the reality of war as seen through the eyes of three ordinary soldiers: a Nazi sergeant, a Jewish American infantryman, and an idealistic urbanite from New York City (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBread Upon the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e: No good deed goes unpunished? The Strands are a happy family, though not without their financial struggles. When their daughter helps a mugging victim by bringing him home, he turns out to be a Wall Street lawyer whose gratitude is as boundless as his bank account. But with each successive “reward,” the Strand family moves farther away from the wealth of happiness they already possessed.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShort Stories: Five Decades\u003c\/i\u003e: Shaw’s prolific output of short stories appeared regularly in the pages of the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEsquire \u003c\/i\u003efor over half a century. These sixty-three stories include such iconic works as “The Eighty-Yard Run” and “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Troubled Air\u003c\/i\u003e: Five employees of Clement Archer’s popular radio show are accused Communists. He will have to fire them to keep his show on the air. But it’s not a simple choice—whatever Archer decides, he won’t be able to keep his hands clean, in Shaw’s provocative classic about courage and morality at the height of McCarthyism.","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132190933232,"sku":"9781504047203","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504047203_p0.jpg?v=1769897641","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504047203","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}