{"product_id":"my-cold-war-a-novel","title":"My Cold War: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sharp, searching novel of an American son and the family he left behind 埦rom a writer of rare breadth and human insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e My Cold War is a critically acclaimed debut novel of extraordinary depth and range : the story of a man's alienation and attempts at reconnection with his family, and a rich exploration of the thorny implications of American popular culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e At its center is John Delano, a professor of Cold War Studies and successful mass–market historian a la Stephen Ambrose or Ken Burns. Raised by an awkward, embittered father and a frustrated mother in a Levittown–style suburb on Long Island, Delano has made a name for himself as a gimmicky interpreter of Cold War America, a controversial but popular repackager of events like the JFK assassination for those who lived through them without noticing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e And yet, as the novel opens, Delano has reached an impasse: during a crisis of confidence, he shelves a major new book project in favor of a quest to drive to the Midwest and seek out his estranged younger brother. But when the trip ends in a sobering discovery that his brother has led a life of desperate transience, grasping at straws and scapegoats 埨e undergoes an epiphany that propels him back to the newly sacred ground where he and his brother were raised.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Long recognized as a writer of exceptional vision and unflinching candor, Tom Piazza has crafted a novel full of incident and argument, a book that speaks with depth and range about what it has meant to be American in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Piazza","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":51669933719858,"sku":"9780060533410","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/7934\/0850\/files\/9780060533410.jpg?v=1787958770","url":"https:\/\/53rdstreetbooks.com\/products\/my-cold-war-a-novel","provider":"53rd Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}