{"product_id":"9781911591146","title":"Tillie and the Tailor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn hopes of emulating his hero Thoreau’s \u003cem\u003e Walden \u003c\/em\u003e , a young man documents his life as he sets out from the family home to become a writer. In the Italian North End of Boston, where family, religion and food are of equal importance, he gets an apartment and a job working in a small grocery store. Surrounded by the sights, smells and sounds of a busy city suburb, he writes sketches of local history and of the many characters who populate his new life. And he meets women – one of whom he can see a real future with. But does she feel the same?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased in part on the author’s own experiences, \u003cem\u003e Tillie and the Tailor \u003c\/em\u003e is, as Paul Theroux notes, ‘a rare and wonderful account of a young man realizing his ambition to become a writer’.\u003c\/p\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003e Tillie and the Tailor \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eTillie and the Tailor \u003c\/em\u003e is a rare and wonderful account of a young man realizing his ambition to become a writer – rare because it is a double portrait, of a man and of his city, which happens to be mine, too. This is the truest chronicle I know of the full-of-life North End of Boston, with its transplanted Italians, their passions and pleasures.’ Paul Theroux\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Darkwater Syndicate, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137253490928,"sku":"9781911591146","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781911591146_p0.jpg?v=1763631296","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781911591146","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}