{"product_id":"a-game-of-inches-9781948749756","title":"A Game of Inches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Life is like baseball\" young paratrooper Phillip Dee was told in the S.R. Doss novel \u003cem\u003eBlood on the Risers.\u003c\/em\u003e \"Sometimes you get a hit, sometimes the ball rolls foul. It's a game of inches.\" It is on the eve of the Vietnam War that Dee is led to realize life is indeed, like baseball, a matter of chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, in \u003cem\u003eA Game of Inches, \u003c\/em\u003e a novel set years later, Doss shows the reader how Dee himself becomes who he is by chance. In a three-part story he is seen as three entirely different men, depending on who he marries, three different women, each of them met more or less by accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere he is seen as a newspaper reporter, then as a Vietnam combat veteran, and finally as a college professor, in a story meant to illustrate how random events, such as who one meets and marries, determine who one becomes-as well as to amuse us about the way life is truly a matter of chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Golden Word Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948749756\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"S. R. Doss","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52122266763445,"sku":"9781948749756","price":10.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e97654b2-406f-449b-8f6b-3e4ff301a221.jpg?v=1766512306","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-game-of-inches-9781948749756","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}