{"product_id":"bloomington-days-blaise-cronin-9781468539455","title":"Bloomington Days: Town and Gown in Middle America","description":"Frat boys who think Mario Lanza is an Italian sports car; journalists who consider \"Man arrested for blowing mucus from nose at an officer\" a news story. Welcome to Bloomington: a world of grey cells and limestone, catfish and cheerleaders, binge drinking and bigots, Ockham's razor and buzz cuts. This is the tiny college town where Alfred Kinsey catalogued gall wasps before stinging a nation into belated sexual awareness. If you're gay or Greek, love opera or hoops, Bloomington is heaven on earth; we have as many same-sex couples as sorority sisters, as many divas as athletes. Welcome to my home, a quixotic mix of small-town life and larger than life campus, squirreled away in the flatlands of Middle America, where torpor is sometimes mistaken for nirvanic serenity, irony for insult and \"ethnographic dazzle\" for deep differences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Blaise Cronin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1468539450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781468539455\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Authorhouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/10\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d","brand":"Blaise Cronin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46465506181375,"sku":"9781468539455","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dbbe2d0b-81c9-47ab-b744-df1a2c3bc08b.jpg?v=1736346452","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bloomington-days-blaise-cronin-9781468539455","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}