{"product_id":"9781631491580","title":"Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A compassionate yet clear-eyed\" (\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e) portrait of country music’s founding father and \"Hillbilly King.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Ribowsky’s \u003cem\u003eHank\u003c\/em\u003e has been hailed as the \"greatest biography yet\" (\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review) of the beloved icon. Hank Williams, a frail, flawed man who had become country music’s first real star, instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr when he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine. Six decades later, Ribowsky traces the miraculous rise of this music legend?from the dirt roads of rural Alabama to the now-immortal stage of the Grand Ole Opry, and, finally, to a lonely end on New Year’s Day in 1953. Examining Williams’s chart-topping hits while also re-creating days and nights choked in booze and desperation, \u003cem\u003eHank\u003c\/em\u003e uncovers the real man beneath the myths, reintroducing us to an American original whose legacy, like a good night at the honkytonk, promises to carry on and on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136280412400,"sku":"9781631491580","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781631491580_p0.jpg?v=1763672196","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781631491580","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}