{"product_id":"the-blizzard-party-9781250829665","title":"The Blizzard Party","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA panoramic novel set in New York City during the catastrophic blizzard of February 1978. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn February 6, 1978, a catastrophic nor'easter struck the city of New York. On that night, in a penthouse in the Upper West Side's stately Apelles apartment building, a crowd gathered for a wild party. And on that night, Mr. Albert Haynes Caldwell--a partner emeritus at Swank, Brady \u0026amp; Plescher; Harvard class of '26; father of three; widower; atheist; and fiscal conservative--hatched a plan to fake a medical emergency and toss himself into the Hudson River, where he would drown. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the eye of this storm: Hazel Saltwater, age six. The strange events of that night irrevocably altered many lives, but none more than hers. \u003ci\u003eThe Blizzard Party\u003c\/i\u003e is Hazel's reconstruction of the facts, an exploration of love, language, conspiracy, auditory time travel, and life after death. Cinematic, with a vast cast of characters and a historical scope that spans World War II Poland, the lives of rich and powerful Manhattanites in the late 1970s, and the enduring effects of 9\/11, Jack Livings's \u003ci\u003eThe Blizzard Party\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic novel in the form of a final farewell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250829665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416","brand":"Jack Livings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41574107185333,"sku":"9781250829665","price":24.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7e2d8f79-f6d8-416c-85c2-bb651a2931a0.jpg?v=1643689499","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-blizzard-party-9781250829665","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}