{"product_id":"sweet-dream-baby-sterling-watson-9781402201486","title":"Sweet Dream Baby","description":"\u003cp\u003eSent to live in the humidity of rural Florida with his grandparents and his sixteen-year-old Aunt Delia for the summer, twelve-year-old Travis becomes absorbed in the closed ways of small-town life. Captivated by Delia, Travis watches her attempt to find a place for herself in the socially stunted, gossip-driven town. Delia's secrets go beyond what Travis can understand, but he believes that he alone can save her--a belief that not only forces him to grow up fast, but one that builds to a dangerous and disturbing climax. In trying to free Delia from her past, Travis leads her into a shocking present and a most uncertain future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a work at once honest, chilling and compulsively addictive, author Sterling Watson has created a time and place where rock 'n' roll hums from AM radios, steam rises from a secluded riverbed and violent summer storms threaten the peace of silent nights. Watson's characters are brought vividly to life through Travis's touching, powerful and intensely personal voice. A dark and evocative coming of age tale, Sweet Dream Baby begins steeped in innocence and ends in a dramatically different place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I can't remember a book that sneaked up and grabbed me the way Sweet Dream Baby did. It's a real shocker by a very good writer.\"--Elmore Leonard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sterling Watson's Sweet Dream Baby is one of the finest novels I've read in years, an incandescent blend of gothic noir, Faulknerian dreamscape and bittersweet coming-of-age story. Months after reading it, it haunts me still.\"--Dennis Lehane\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sterling Watson's Sweet Dream Baby brings us the words and music, the tastes and smells of that special time--as well as its heartache and secret shame. I was utterly absorbed in these fierce pages.\"--Fred Chappell, author of Look Back All the Green Valley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sweet Dream Baby is a beautiful book. Sterling Watson is surehanded and telling in a story that is as elegiac as it is gripping.\"--Michael Connelly, author of Chasing the Dime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Some delicious page-turning.\"--Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Book Sense 76 Top 10 Selection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed to Top Ten Crime Books of 2002, Toronto Globe and Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Watson proves himself a first-rate storyteller.\"--Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A comprehensive work of art that is as thought-provoking as it is disturbing.\"--Orlando Sentinel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sterling Watson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1402201486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781402201486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sourcebooks Landmark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.94h x 5.11w x 0.75d","brand":"Sterling Watson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925420703999,"sku":"9781402201486","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b0e2694a-dd56-4791-bf05-ecadf4c93d7c.jpg?v=1681077174","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sweet-dream-baby-sterling-watson-9781402201486","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}