{"product_id":"book-2488","title":"Ellen and the Barber","description":"\u003cp class=\"DefaultText\"\u003eVividly evoking a small mid-west town during the Great Depression and World War II, \u003ci\u003eEllen and the Barber\u003c\/i\u003e introduces us to three strong and surprising young women and the men in their lives: Ellen, who has no good reason to deny her natural instincts; Miriam, torn between the promise of a loving future and the demands of family and home; and Vera, whose intelligence and restless hunger for life plunges her into disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAround these three vibrant women, O'Rourke has created a town so real and convincing that the listener experiences a sense of \u003ci\u003ed├®j├á vu\u003c\/i\u003e. Through dust storms and drought, economic depression and the lingering demise of small farming, Prohibition and the war that took its young men, the town and its people let us live and laugh and sometimes cry with them. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49300311802160,"sku":"BD2488","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/2488-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775546058","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-2488","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}