{"product_id":"9781566893084","title":"Boarded Windows","description":"\"Do yourself a favor and read this smart, tender book. The characters will haunt you with their longing and inspire you with their sweet, caustic wit. Dylan Hicks knows his music and his prose is a song in itself.\"\u003cb\u003e--Sam Lipsyte\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A continually hilarious, hopes-dashed account of an indelible American character: the con man.\"\u003cb\u003e--Greil Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWade Salem is a charismatic aesthete, drug dealer, and journeyman country musician. He's also a complicated father figure to this novel's narrator, whose cloudy childhood becomes both clearer and more confusing through Wade's stories, jokes, and lectures. Through the eyes of a keenly observant, underemployed record collector, Wade emerges as a sly, disruptive force, at once seductive and maddening.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShifting between flashbacks from the seventies and nineties, \u003ci\u003eBoarded Windows\u003c\/i\u003e is a postmodern orphan story that explores the fallibility of memory and the weight of our social and cultural inheritance. Stylistically layered and searchingly lonesome, Dylan Hicks' debut novel captures the music and mood of the fading embers of America's boomer counterculture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDylan Hicks\u003c\/b\u003e is a songwriter, musician, and writer. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe  New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCity Pages\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e, and he has released three CDs under his own name. A fourth, \u003ci\u003eSings Bolling Greene\u003c\/i\u003e, is a soundtrack to this novel and will be released in May 2012. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife Nina Hale and his son Jackson. This is his first novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146643456240,"sku":"9781566893084","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566893084_p0.jpg?v=1763786800","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566893084","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}