{"product_id":"had-a-good-time-stories-from-american-postcards-paperback","title":"Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Olen Butler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Gloriously imaginative and utterly hypnotizing short stories\" inspired by vintage twentieth-century postcards, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor many years, author Robert Olen Butler has collected picture postcards from the early twentieth century-not so much for the pictures on the fronts but for the messages written on the backs, little bits of the captured souls of people long since passed away. Using these brief messages of real people from another age, Butler here creates fully imagined stories that speak to the universal human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"Up by Heart,\" a Tennessee miner is called upon to become a preacher, and then asked to complete an altogether more sinister task. In \"The Ironworkers' Hayride,\" a young man named Milton embarks on a romantic adventure with a girl with a wooden leg. From the deeply moving \"Carl and I,\" in which a young wife writes a postcard in reply to a card from her husband who is dying of tuberculosis, to the eerily familiar \"The One in White,\" in which a newspaper reporter covers an incident of American military adventurism in a foreign land, these short stories are intimate and fascinating glimpses into the lives of ordinary people in an extraordinary age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A wonderful collection.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Olen Butler\u003c\/b\u003e is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seventeen novels, including \u003ci\u003eHell\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Small Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePerfume River\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process, \u003ci\u003eFrom Where You Dream\u003c\/i\u003e. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8.34 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49335443652747,"sku":"9780802142047","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/RseOa2nSQF9780802142047.webp?v=1788976216","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/had-a-good-time-stories-from-american-postcards-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}