{"product_id":"book-2qnr","title":"Going to Meet the Man","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA major collection of short fiction—including the story “Sonny’s Blues\"—by one of America’s most important writers, exploring the wounds racism leaves in both its victims and its perpetrators.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eIn this modern classic, “there’s no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it.” The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eIt may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eBy turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying, \u003cem\u003eGoing to Meet the Man\u003c\/em\u003e is a major work by one of the most important writers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eIncluding:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eThe Rockpile\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eThe Outing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eThe Man Child\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003ePrevious Condition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eSonny’s Blues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eThis Morning, This Evening, So Soon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eCome Out the Wilderness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eGoing to Meet the Man\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Audible","offers":[{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":68185665175856,"sku":"ZE2qnr","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/2qnr-Square-cover.webp?v=1793116836","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-2qnr","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}