{"product_id":"dance-a-little-longer-jane-roberts-wood-9781574410808","title":"Dance a Little Longer","description":"The Lucinda \"Lucy\" Richards trilogy, spanning the years from 1911 to the 1930s, has everything good books should have: a variety of landscapes, characters of all ages and social classes, an overall tenderness that never lapses into sentimentality, and a sense of the comic amidst the tragic. Lucy is feisty, funny, and completely open-armed about life. Josh passionately confronts danger and greed and prejudice with courage and humor and, sometimes, with bare fists. Even the minor characters are so rife with color that you first turn the pages quickly to see what they will do next and, then, you turn them slowly so as to savor each page of this remarkable trilogy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe year is 1931 and Lucy Richards Arnold--now a mother of a precocious four-year-old son--is in rural West Texas, teaching in the school where her husband, Josh, is principal and struggling to make a success of their farm during the bleak, hard times of the Great Depression. Out of this barren landscape, rich and colorful characters emerge as if from a fertile land. Before the year's end, Lucy is faced with a loss of such magnitude that she must struggle to find a way to recapture the joy in her very existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jane Roberts Wood, James Roberts Wood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1574410806\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781574410808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.56w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/22\/1999 pg. 45\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2000 pg. 159","brand":"Jane Roberts Wood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939723280639,"sku":"9781574410808","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_813520b7-ddf7-489b-b395-df6f09379e9f.jpg?v=1681443128","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dance-a-little-longer-jane-roberts-wood-9781574410808","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}