{"product_id":"leaving-wayne-danny-clune-9781475949001","title":"Leaving Wayne: A Story about Overcoming Trauma, Poverty, and Addiction While Growing Up in a Time of Radical Change","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen author Danny Clune was seven years old, he experienced a traumatic accident that changed the course of his life-It left a hole in his life that he would spend a lifetime repairing. In Leaving Wayne, Clune tells his coming-of-age story that takes place in rural New York State and northeastern Pennsylvania in the 1950s and '60s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis colorful memoir narrates the struggles of surviving shame, poverty, abuse, and succeeding in an era that went from party phone lines to cell phones, from 45s to MP3s, and from sock hops to mosh pits. Leaving Wayne tells of Clune's childhood in a family with seven children; his struggles with addiction; his recovery; his stints as an English teacher, chef, and restaurateur in Upstate New York; his work abroad with mental health services; and the ways that 9\/11 affected his life and his profession.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThroughout this story, Clune shows how the grit of rural life conflicted with the influences of prosperity and modernity that gradually overtook him and molded him into the person he became.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Danny Clune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1475949006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781475949001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Danny Clune","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47965801218303,"sku":"9781475949001","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4ea049a6-8771-4c61-a3b4-ee6e9d82aa1b.jpg?v=1767284922","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/leaving-wayne-danny-clune-9781475949001","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}