{"product_id":"weedeater-robert-gipe-9780821423097","title":"Weedeater: An Illustrated Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, 2019 Weatherford Award (Fiction)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA finalist for the 2019 Weatherford Award in Fiction, \u003ci\u003eWeedeater\u003c\/i\u003e  is a contemporary story of love and loss told by a pair of eastern Kentucky mountaineers: Gene, the lovelorn landscaper who bears witness to the misadventures of a family entangled in drugs, artmaking, and politics, a family beset by both environmental and self-destruction; and Dawn Jewell, a young mother  searching--for lost family members, lost youth, lost community, and lost heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePicking up six years after the end of Robert Gipe's acclaimed first novel, \u003ci\u003eTrampoline\u003c\/i\u003e, in \u003ci\u003eWeedeater\u003c\/i\u003e,  the reader finds Canard County living through the last hurrah of the coal industry and the most turbulent and deadly phase of the community's battle with opioid abuse. The events Gipe chronicles are frantic. They are told through a voice by turns taciturn and angry, yet also balanced with humor and stoic grace. \u003ci\u003eWeedeater\u003c\/i\u003e  is a story about how we put our lives back together when we lose the things we thought we couldn't bear losing, how we find new purpose in what we thought were scraps and trash caught in the weeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Gipe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821423096\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821423097\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.30w x 0.80d","brand":"Robert Gipe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43980620792063,"sku":"9780821423097","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4be6229b-5e52-4838-9e2e-945de36249a9.jpg?v=1683250954","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/weedeater-robert-gipe-9780821423097","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}