{"product_id":"love-among-the-ruins-9781400030309","title":"Love Among the Ruins","description":"When William Lowry writes to Emily Byrne-\u003ci\u003eI don't know if you know that you know me-\u003c\/i\u003ethe seventeen-year-old hardly suspects that his life, along with the rest of America, is about to change forever. But the day Emily receives the letter and composes a response-\u003ci\u003eI know who you are. In fact, I remember you from a bunch of times\u003c\/i\u003e-is also the day that Robert Kennedy is shot. In Minnesota, even as the tumultuous summer of 1968 has begun, first love cares little for matters of time and place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWilliam and Emily fall hard, despite the fact that he and his family are determined to wrestle with the system while she and hers are conservative, God-fearing Catholics. Together, the young lovers grow into each other and decide to escape to the wilderness to start anew. Left behind to grapple with the shifting mores of the nation and the sundering of their families, the Lowrys and the Byrnes must search for both their children and their own lost innocence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMasterfully rendering both young love and the unrest of the 1960s Robert Clark has crafted a work that is at once intimate and grand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400030309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.30w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooksense '76 Sep\/Oct 2002\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2002 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKliatt\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2003 pg. 14\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Robert Clark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51445580136629,"sku":"9781400030309","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3861cce6-303d-46a9-87a4-b46e5cac911c.jpg?v=1753799068","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/love-among-the-ruins-9781400030309","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}