{"product_id":"the-boy-detective-9780062277190","title":"The Boy Detective","description":"\u003cp\u003eResisting the deadening silence of his family home in the elegant yet stiflingly safe neighborhood of Gramercy Park, nine-year-old Roger Rosenblatt imagines himself a private eye in pursuit of criminals. With the dreamlike mystery of the city before him, he sets off alone into the streets of Manhattan, thrilling to a life of unsolved cases.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix decades later, Rosenblatt finds himself again patrolling the territory of his youth. He investigates the lives of the writers who walked these streets before him, such as Poe and Melville; the great detectives of fiction and the essence of detective work; and the monuments of his childhood, such as the New York Public Library and the Empire State Building.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA masterly evocation of the city and a meditation on memory as an act of faith, suffused with a mixture of acute observation and bracing humor, lyricism, and wit, \u003cem\u003eThe Boy Detective\u003c\/em\u003e treads the line between a novel and a poem, displaying a world at once dangerous and beautiful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/23\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062277190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.71h x 5.02w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/26\/2014 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Roger Rosenblatt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45369994313909,"sku":"9780062277190","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_c6bd14b6-13b2-47a6-9ea6-5215093cbfa0.jpg?v=1747109110","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-boy-detective-9780062277190","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}