{"product_id":"9781886228429","title":"Barnaby and Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmazing but true stories from one of the most beloved figures in Cleveland entertainment history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 32 years, he was a six-foot-tall elf named Barnaby. That was the character Linn Sheldon played on television, to the delight of three generations of children—and many grownups, too. The role made him a celebrity and defined not only his career but an entire era of local television. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarnaby was a masterful storyteller who spun imaginative tales out of thin air to enthrall his audience. But no story Linn Sheldon ever invented for Barnaby even compares with the real-life script he lived himself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was caught in a Texas tornado, trapped in quicksand, and survived an airplane fire. He was accused of bank robbery and performed stand-up comedy at the point of a gangster’s gun. He was fathered by a drifter, orphaned at birth by his mother’s death, and later abandoned as a small, lonely child to fend mostly for himself. He quit high school to hitchhike across the country with little more than a banjo, and landed among the glitter of Hollywood with a job on the lot of MGM studios. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe fell in love—again and again. He broke into stage acting, helped invent television programming in the earliest days of Cleveland’s first TV station, and became a celebrity. He made a lot of money—and lost most of it, as he drank away his health and the love of the people he cared about the most. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe sobered up, fought ill health, and fell in love again. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd, now, he looks back. In these 29 stories Linn Sheldon, master storyteller, shares his most intriguing tale yet: that of his own extraordinary life. It is a remarkable mix of melancholy, hilarity, irony, and warmth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gray \u0026 Company, Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057845485808,"sku":"9781886228429","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781886228429_p0.jpg?v=1763606137","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781886228429","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}