{"product_id":"dear-ann","title":"Dear Ann","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDear Ann\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eBobbie Ann Mason\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780062986658\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHarper\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2020\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e352\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the 2021\u003cbr\u003ePEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of the classics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShiloh and Other Stories\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand I\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003en Country\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ecomes a beautifully crafted and profoundly moving novel which follows a woman as she looks back over her life and her first love.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnn\u003cbr\u003eWorkman is smart but naïve, a misfit who's traveled from rural Kentucky to\u003cbr\u003egraduate school in the transformative years of the late 1960s. While Ann fervently\u003cbr\u003eseeks higher learning, she wants what all girls yearn for--a boyfriend. But not\u003cbr\u003eany boy. She wants the \"Real Thing,\" to be in love with someone who loves her\u003cbr\u003eequally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen\u003cbr\u003eJimmy appears, as if by magic. Although he comes from a very different place, \u003cbr\u003eupper-middle class suburban Chicago, he is a misfit too, a rebel who rejects\u003cbr\u003ehis upbringing and questions everything. Ann and Jimmy bond through music and\u003cbr\u003eliterature and their own quirkiness, diving headfirst into what seems to be a\u003cbr\u003eperfect relationship. But with the Vietnam War looming and the country in\u003cbr\u003eturmoil, their future is uncertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany\u003cbr\u003eyears later, Ann recalls this time of innocence--and her own obsession with\u003cbr\u003eJimmy--as she faces another life crisis. Seeking escape from her problems, she\u003cbr\u003etries to imagine where she might be if she had chosen differently all those\u003cbr\u003eyears ago. What if she had gone to Stanford University, as her mentor had\u003cbr\u003eurged, instead of a small school on the East Coast? Would she have been caught\u003cbr\u003eup in the Summer of Love and its subsequent dark turns? Or would her own good\u003cbr\u003esense have saved her from disaster?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully\u003cbr\u003ewritten and expertly told, \u003cem\u003eDear Ann\u003c\/em\u003e is the wrenching story of one\u003cbr\u003ewoman's life and the choices she has made. Bobbie Ann Mason captures at once\u003cbr\u003ethe excitement of youth and the nostalgia of age, and how consideration of the\u003cbr\u003eroad not taken--the interplay of memory and imagination--can illuminate, and\u003cbr\u003eperhaps overtake, our present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Dear Ann | Bobbie Ann Mason | Hardcover | 9780062986658 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks F 1785721","offer_id":50852825366786,"sku":"1785721","price":22.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71-Vfgxz5hL.jpg?v=1792768105","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/dear-ann","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}