{"product_id":"9781611175226","title":"The Hard to Catch Mercy: A Novel","description":"From lowcountry writer William Baldwin comes a new edition of his 1993 Lillian Smith Award–winning novel, The Hard to Catch Mercy. Including a new introduction by the author, this Southern Revivals edition makes available once more a story that touches on the issues of religion, race, and coming-of-age in the post–Civil War South, when the lines between these issues were not always clear. Set in fictional Cedar Point, a small southern community in the early 1900s, The Hard to Catch Mercy is told through the eyes of a young boy, Willie T., who is forced to confront the changing world around him. Including a cast of incredibly outlandish characters, Baldwin’s novel is a wild, darkly comic tale rich with trick mules, Christian voodoo, fire, brimstone, first love, death, and the end of the world as Willie T. knows it.","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129984205040,"sku":"9781611175226","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781611175226_p0.jpg?v=1763840480","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781611175226","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}