{"product_id":"9781771871549","title":"Culverts Beneath the Narrow Road","description":"\u003cp\u003eA culvert anchors a key scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie \u003ci\u003eThe 39 Steps \u003c\/i\u003eand a scene in \u003ci\u003eTwo for the Road \u003c\/i\u003estarring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. Culverts appear in books by Tony Burgess, Dennis Cooley, Alice Munro, Annie Proulx, and Virginia Woolf. Culverts called to Brenda Schmidt's imagination as well. As a child she played in and around their steel dark openings and took risks. In the daring poetry and prose of \u003ci\u003eCulverts Beneath the Narrow Road \u003c\/i\u003ethe risk-taking continues. In her journeys, she asked people from all walks of life — construction workers, farmers, biologists, writers, musicians — about their culvert stories. Their recollections of experiences with or near culverts, both dark and light, gave voice to her own experiences, providing another sense of the connections we share and the way stories emerge and flow. Schmidt does this by using the stories as a jumping off point when they call up her own memories. She expands on interview quotes, stretching and bending them to create new stories and poems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thistledown Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050739319024,"sku":"9781771871549","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781771871549_p0.jpg?v=1763708173","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781771871549","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}