{"title":"John Casey","description":"John Casey is the author of The Half-life of Happiness, naow available in hardcover from Knopf.","products":[{"product_id":"spartina-national-book-award-winner-paperback","title":"Spartina: National Book Award Winner - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 1989 National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, \u003cb\u003eSpartina\u003c\/b\u003e is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family man, he is also prone to irascible outbursts against the people he must work for, now that he can no longer make his living from the sea. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePierce's one great passion, a fifty-foot fishing boat called \u003ci\u003eSpartina\u003c\/i\u003e, lies unfinished in his back yard. 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