{"product_id":"bows-boy-a-novel-9780743227278","title":"Bow's Boy: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery now and then  a small American town produces someone with such out-of-place talent that he seems to have come from a different world. In the 1960s hardscrabble town of Laroque  Wisconsin  seventeen-year-old Ginger Piper  a high school sports hero and a disarmingly poised and articulate young man  is that sort of figure. Or at least G. Bowman Epps -- a rich  lonely  middle-aged lawyer -- believes he is. Bow is something of a town legend too: Ungainly and scarred  brilliant and stern  famous for great inherited wealth  he seems a vestige of a time gone by in a town where the legacy of past greatness -- embodied in the ornate  decaying  and defunct opera house -- casts a literal shadow. But when Bow discovers Ginger Piper  he is energized and inspired. Where others have seen merely a charming basketball star  Bow spies the seeds of something greater and the drive  intelligence  and passion to carry on Bows legacy as a groundbreaking criminal attorney. When Bow offers the boy a summer apprenticeship in his orderly practice  it is an investment in a certain future  and the initiation of an oddly matched friendship. But when Ginger is accused of a startling crime that changes the towns perception of him  Bow is not only surprised  hes also implicated  and forced to choose between his fierce sense of logic and his admiration for the boy. The story unfolds as the first agonizing repercussions of the Vietnam War are being felt and the American people are struggling to comprehend a new kind of war. It inspires a startling division between the generations at home  as politics and personal lives inevitably collide. Bows investigator  Charlie Stuart  narrates the events thirty years later  adding a perspective colored by tortured memories of his manic father and his halting pursuit of a young woman in town. Anchored by a compelling mystery  Bows Boy is ultimately about greatness  heroism  loyalty  and justice  and the pain and solace of family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924464402485,"sku":"ByrdShop_0743227271","price":90.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780743227278.jpg?v=1794133588","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/bows-boy-a-novel-9780743227278","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}