{"product_id":"the-showcase-paperback","title":"The Showcase - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMost of my life has become wrapped up in stories, and I sometimes get a case of vertigo when I'm put on the spot and have to tell the unvarnished truth.\u003c\/em\u003e\" \u003cem\u003eThe Showcase\u003c\/em\u003e aspires to tell the truth about a particular time and place-Philadelphia in the 1980s-and to do so by unraveling the intimate lives of ordinary people, individuals coming of age in the decade when America was transformed into a different, less hopeful place than it had once been. The stories of \u003cem\u003eThe Showcase\u003c\/em\u003e also consider the act of storytelling itself, asking, in various ways, how one's version of oneself is fashioned and refashioned, mythologized and, as sometimes happens, turned into fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67913408413919,"sku":"9781953236319","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/AQvRh5ahxd9781953236319.webp?v=1790995887","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-showcase-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}