{"product_id":"the-farewell-tour-9780063251168","title":"The Farewell Tour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the author of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eEverybody Rise\u003c\/em\u003e, a \"shimmering\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e) novel with the exquisite historical detail and evocative settings of \u003cem\u003eThe Cold Millions \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eGreat Circle \u003c\/em\u003ethat tells the story of one unforgettable woman's rise in country and western music.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's 1980, and Lillian Waters is hitting the road for the very last time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJaded from her years in the music business, perpetually hungover, and diagnosed with career-ending vocal problems, Lillian cobbles together a nationwide farewell tour featuring some old hands from her early days playing honky-tonk bars in Washington State and Nashville, plus a few new ones. She yearns to feel the rush of making live music one more time and bask in the glow of a packed house before she makes the last, and most important, stop on the tour: the farm she left behind at age ten and the sister she is finally ready to confront about an agonizing betrayal in their childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the novel crisscrosses eras, moving between Lillian's youth--the Depression, the Second World War, the rise of Nashville--and her middle-aged life in 1980, we see her striving to build a career in the male-dominated world of country music, including the hard choices she makes as she tries to redefine music, love, aging, and womanhood on her own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNearing her final tour stop, Lil is forced to confront those choices and how they shaped her life. Would a different version of herself have found the happiness and success that has eluded her? When she reaches her Washington hometown for her very last show, though, she'll undergo a reckoning with the past that forces her to reconsider her entire life story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring one unforgettable woman's creativity, ambition, and sacrifices in a world--and an art form--made for men, \u003cem\u003eThe Farewell Tour \u003c\/em\u003easks us to consider how much of our past we can ever leave behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063251168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352","brand":"Stephanie Clifford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43623992197301,"sku":"9780063251168","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_527855bd-e49e-4b10-8f0b-c30eceb58b33.jpg?v=1707798034","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-farewell-tour-9780063251168","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}