{"product_id":"music-of-the-swamp-9781565120167","title":"Music of the Swamp","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page.\" --\u003ci\u003eSouthern Living\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLewis Nordan's fiction invents its own world--always populated by madly heroic misfits. In \u003ci\u003eMusic of the Swamp, \u003c\/i\u003e he focuses his magic and imagination on a boy's utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father--a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten-year-old Sugar Mecklin's world with dazzling clarity: the smells, the tastes, and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar, somewhat bizarre, Delta town. Sugar discovers that what his daddy says is true: \"The Delta is filled up with death\"; but he also finds an endless supply of hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ALA Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Algonquin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781565120167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.97h x 4.99w x 0.62d","brand":"Lewis Nordan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42925067010229,"sku":"9781565120167","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4fc840a7-8c60-4cdd-a354-96265bbdffaa.jpg?v=1687844844","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/music-of-the-swamp-9781565120167","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}