{"product_id":"love-among-the-ruins-robert-clark-9780393342178","title":"Love Among the Ruins","description":"Amid the crises of the summer of 1968, two teenagers become lovers. Emily is a good Catholic girl, for whom an incarnate God means joy and contentment in the life of the body. William is preoccupied, in a vague sort of way, with politics and the evils of the System. Together, impelled by physical passion and the idealistic notion that \"all our life is some form of religion, and all our action some belief,\" they run away to create a new life in the wilderness. In their absence, their parents' predictable lives take an entirely different course, and America itself seems to lose its innocence, never to be quite the same again. Not since Alice McDermott's \u003cem\u003eThat Night\u003c\/em\u003e or Scott Spencer's \u003cem\u003eEndless Love\u003c\/em\u003e has there been a novel that portrays with such immediacy and respect teenagers' first loveits intensity, finely calibrated moods, and worldly innocenceand the elusive nature of adult loveits passion and fragility, comforts and betrayals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393342174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393342178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/17\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d","brand":"Robert Clark","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47930660552959,"sku":"9780393342178","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fb048dfb-add5-4f07-ba3e-dae3c36b5665.jpg?v=1766343385","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-among-the-ruins-robert-clark-9780393342178","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}