{"product_id":"early-stories-doug-rucker-9780998879239","title":"Early Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter making eight, one hundred-page comedy books with cartoons and humorous essays and giving them to friends, and doing enough poetry to fill a four-hundred page book, I finally had the desire remember the past and think maybe I could write it. I'd tell myself the \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eEARLY STORIES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e of my life. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAt the age of sixty-five and prompted by my mother's gift of three tattered family photo albums, I was reminded of the past and suddenly wanted to remember everything of that far distant time. I started with my birth. It should organize easily. The outline would be chronological. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn remembering everything, perhaps I indulged myself too much, but you be the judge. When I finished the book after writing about graduating from the University of Illinois, I felt, perhaps my life story could not be told in a mere three or four hundred pages. It looked very much like there would at least be a \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eLATER STORIES.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Doug Rucker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0998879231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780998879239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Douglas Rucker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d","brand":"Doug Rucker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47452622192895,"sku":"9780998879239","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_daa6396d-5239-407e-b8ca-f5f293a3d897.jpg?v=1761929521","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/early-stories-doug-rucker-9780998879239","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}