{"product_id":"book-cqq9","title":"Visible Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn epic novel-based on true events-of love, grief, race, and wealth, charting a single sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eOn a humid summer day, the phones begin to ring: disaster has struck. \u003cem\u003eChateau de Sully\u003c\/em\u003e, a Boeing 707 chartered to ferry home more than one hundred of Atlanta's most prominent citizens from a European jaunt, crashed in Paris shortly after takeoff. It is the second-deadliest disaster in the history of aviation. Overnight, the city of Atlanta changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eLeft behind are children, spouses, lovers, and friends faced with renegotiating their lives. Robert, a newspaper editor, must decide if he can reconnect with his beloved but estranged wife, whose swindler parents have left her penniless. Nineteen-year-old Piedmont Dobbs, recently denied admission to an integrated school, senses a moment of uncertain opportunity. And Mayor Ivan Allen is tasked with the job of moving Atlanta forward-the hedonism of the '60s and the urgency of the civil rights movement at his city's doorstep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eVisible Empire\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a husband and wife who can't begin to understand each other until chaos drives them to clarity. It's a story of the promise and hope that remain in the wake of crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Pittard's novel combines a sense of personal loss and turmoil with greater societal change as the civil rights movement arrives at its peak.\"\u003c\/em\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49381413847344,"sku":"BDcqq9","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49381413880112,"sku":"ZEcqq9","price":42.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49381413912880,"sku":"ZMcqq9","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/cqq9-cover.jpg?v=1765930699","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cqq9","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}