{"product_id":"9786059654463","title":"Winter Dreams: \"Illustrated\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eSOME of the caddies were poor as sin and lived in one-room houses with a neurasthenic cow in the front yard, but Dexter Green's father owned the second best grocery-store in Black Bear—the best one was \"The Hub,\" patronized by the wealthy people from Sherry Island—and Dexter caddied on-ly for pocket-money.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIN the fall when the days became crisp and gray, and the long Minnesota winter shut down like the white lid of a box, Dexter's skis moved over the snow that hid the fairways of the golf course. At these times the country gave him a feeling of profound melancholy—it offended him that the links should lie in enforced fallowness, haunted by ragged sparrows for the long season. It was dreary, too, that on the tees where the gay colors fluttered in summer there were now only the desolate sand-boxes knee-deep in crusted ice. When he crossed the hills the wind blew cold as misery, and if the sun was out he tramped with his eyes squinted up against the hard dimensionless glare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIN April the winter ceased abruptly. The snow ran down into Black Bear Lake scarcely tarrying for the early golfers to brave the season with red and black balls. Without elation, without an interval of moist glory, the cold was gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled \"Lost Gen-eration,\" Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. \u003cbr\u003eHe finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOther Books of Fitzgerald:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922)\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Gatsby (1925)\u003cbr\u003eTender is the Night (1933)\u003cbr\u003eThe Beautiful and the Damned (1922)\u003cbr\u003eThis Side of Paradise (1920)\u003cbr\u003e\"I Didn't Get Over\" (1936)\u003cbr\u003eThe Rich Boy (1926)\u003cbr\u003eJacob's Ladder (1927)\u003cbr\u003eThe Sensible Thing (1924)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"eKitap Projesi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183013904624,"sku":"9786059654463","price":2.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9786059654463_p0.jpg?v=1763715951","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9786059654463","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}