{"product_id":"arabian-nights-of-1934-geoffrey-obrien-9781949597271","title":"Arabian Nights of 1934","description":"\u003cb\u003eA genre-bending novel of 1001 nights of no-holds-barred, pre-code American movies distilled into a single fevered dreamworld.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eArabian Nights of 1934\u003c\/i\u003e is a journey through the fevered dreamworld embodied in American movies of the early 1930s: an era that closed abruptly with the enforcement of the Production Code in July 1934. It distills a thousand and one nights of Depression-era movie-going--plotlines, closeups, cityscapes, wisecracks, backchat, and frantic outbursts--into a haunting parallel life, the stories bleeding into one another as they did in the minds of the viewers whom they helped sustain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo of those viewers, it so happens, are O'Brien's own parents in their restless youth--one impatient to experience the world beyond the screen, one ready to take it on--and the glimpse we're afforded into the darkened theaters of their minds frames the book with an act of imagination at once tender and audacious.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geoffrey O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 194959727X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949597271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Terra Nova Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d","brand":"Geoffrey O'Brien","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44078260781311,"sku":"9781949597271","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_429ea86a-0a71-402c-a586-b0c7b61d95a6.jpg?v=1685474473","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/arabian-nights-of-1934-geoffrey-obrien-9781949597271","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}