{"product_id":"9781612194387","title":"Red or Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e[T]he stuff of great literature.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e| \"\u003ci\u003eRed or Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is a winner.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe place where the swinging sixties started – Liverpool, England, birthplace of the Beatles – wasn’t so swinging. Amid industrial blight and a bad economy, the port town’s shipping industry was going bust and there was widespread unemployment, with no assistance from a government tightening its belt. Even the Beatles moved to London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto these hard times walked Bill Shankly, a former Scottish coal miner who took over the city’s perpetually last-place soccer team. He had a straightforward work ethic and a favorite song – a silly pop song done by a local band, “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” Soon he would have entire stadiums singing along, tens of thousands of people all dressed in the team color red . . . as Liverpool began to win . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd soon, too, there was something else those thousands of people would chant as one: Shank-lee, Shank-lee . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRed or Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, the acclaimed writer David Peace tells the stirring story of the real-life working-class hero who lifted the spirits of an entire city in turbulent times. But \u003ci\u003eRed or Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a fictional biography of a real man, and more than a thrilling novel about sports. It is an epic novel that transcends those categories, until there’s nothing left to call it but – as many of the world’s leading newspapers already have – a masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041949597936,"sku":"9781612194387","price":12.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612194387_p0.jpg?v=1763848095","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612194387","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}