{"product_id":"9781609402907","title":"The Devil's Fingers \u0026 Other Personal Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe more than two dozen personal essays in this new collection by one of Texas’s master storytellers range from travel pieces about Havana and London to stories about small-town exotics that are funny, nervy, outlandish, and all characterized by James Hoggard’s sly wit and his noted openness to people he meets along the way. Fast-paced, yet at the same time reflective, Hoggard guides his readers into some of the wonderfully strange turns of the world, including a Saturday morning gathering of khaki-dressed men who have hunkered down at a Dairy Queen to get away from their women who want them to spend the day doing chores. At the same time they see Hoggard as a bicycle-riding exotic who finds it normal to go out and bike 60-odd miles before lunch. Now and then the encounters are hair-raising, sometimes scary, but Hoggard always provides the kind of interior monologues that draw upon both deep reading and deep observation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wings Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037341532400,"sku":"9781609402907","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781609402907_p0.jpg?v=1763841963","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609402907","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}