{"product_id":"9781551522685","title":"Got 'Til It's Gone","description":"\"With his gift for language, eye for detail and consistent tone of voice, Larry Duplechan has the makings to be a major literary figure.\" -Edge Publications  \u003cp\u003eThis is the first novel by \u003cb\u003eLarry Duplechan\u003c\/b\u003e in fifteen years, and the fourth to feature his alter ego protagonist Johnnie Ray Rousseau, a gay black man of Louisiana Creole stock. When we first met Johnnie Ray in the novel \u003ci\u003eBlackbird\u003c\/i\u003e, he was a gay teenager in love with the star of a high school play; now he’s forty-eight, still handsome and gym-built, but admittedly vain and looking down the short road to fifty. In the midst of a midlife crisis, he falls for a much younger man with some serious Daddy issues; throughout it all, Johnnie Ray tries to look at love (and his life) from both sides now (to borrow a phrase from his idol Joni Mitchell). \u003ci\u003eGot ’Til It’s Gone \u003c\/i\u003eis a queer romantic comedy for the ages.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarry Duplechan \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of four previous novels, including \u003ci\u003eBlackbird\u003c\/i\u003e, published in a new edition by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2006. He is a deacon at the Metropolitan Community Church in the Valley in North Hollywood, California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184518643952,"sku":"9781551522685","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781551522685_p0.jpg?v=1763752724","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781551522685","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}