{"product_id":"kingdom-where-nobody-dies-9781462823635","title":"Kingdom Where Nobody Dies","description":"\u003cp\u003eEchoes of the fatal shots fired in Dallas on November 22, 1963 reverberate in this collection of seven stories set in Louisiana during the civil rights era. For a varied cast of characters--the artist in the title story who tells the tale of his sojourn at LSU during Kennedy's \u0026amp;quote;brief and shining moment\u0026amp;quote; through a retrospective of his paintings; the schoolteacher soon to be married grieving with her mother over the shattered dream of a charmed and happy First Family's life; the disabled man witnessing the killing of Oswald on the TV screen with a growing premonition of the coming darkness in the world; the lawyer, son of a Southern-born mother and a Yankee father, reliving the loss of his beloved wife in mourning the nation's loss; the African-American wife of a preacher praying to the ghost of her dead mother for solace; the woman who, in moving her family away, feels the place reach out and pull them back; the young couple transplanted from the Midwest entranced by the fairy-tale beauty and amusements of their new life who become caught up in the social upheaval of the times--the violent death of our youngest President is a crucible for the dawning of historical consciousness in the wake of the nation's loss of innocence. An Afterword traces the genesis and the thirty-three-year journey to the publication of this book of stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52936914436375,"sku":null,"price":1213.44,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6918\/8119\/files\/9781462823635.jpg?v=1780983159","url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/ur\/products\/kingdom-where-nobody-dies-9781462823635","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}