{"product_id":"american-meteor","title":"American Meteor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Norman Lock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e American Meteor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 207\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA scrappy Brooklyn orphan turned vengeful assassin narrates a visionary tale of the American West\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this panoramic tale of Manifest Destiny--the second stand-alone book in The American Novels series--Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he befriends Walt Whitman, receives a medal from General Grant, becomes a bugler on President Lincoln's funeral train, goes to work for railroad mogul Thomas Durant, apprentices with frontier photographer William Henry Jackson, and stalks General George Custer. When he comes face-to-face with Crazy Horse, his life will be spared but his dreams haunted for the rest of his days.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy turns elegiac and comic, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Meteor\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of adventure, ideas, and mourning: a unique vision of America's fabulous and murderous history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934137949\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e Height: 7.75 Inches, Length: 5 Inches, Weight: 0.43651527876 Pounds, Width: 0.75 Inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e en\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norman Lock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53794812330291,"sku":"9781934137949","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/17447453482876.jpg?v=1785905481","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/american-meteor","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}