{"product_id":"the-bone-pickers-double-mountain-books-9780896724792","title":"The Bone Pickers (Double Mountain Books)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAgainst the flamboyant background of the Golden Spread  the oil-rich Panhandle of the late 1950s  Al Dewlen has poised a full-scale and truly original novel of one Texas familythe Mungers of Amarillo. The six Munger siblings are the heirs of hard-drinking  hardscrabble farmer Cecil Munger  who in one generation brought his family from Dust Bowl poverty to unfathomable wealth. Sitting as directors of the several corporations in which their wealth resides  five of the siblingsSpain  Texas  Laska  China  and Bethelstruggle to balance their past with their present  their place in society  and their obligations to community  to themselves  and to their damaged and dependent brother June  confined to the old homestead. Wayward humor  warmth and passion  vigorous and imaginative revelation silhouette their individual rebelliousness against the debilitating restrictions of the family empire. Lon Tinkle called Dewlen a born storyteller and praised The Bone Pickers for having the kind of novelistic vision that makes the reader press on to the end without stopping. This drama of human need  hidden dreams  and battered aspirations occurs in characters of such depth they may well become the most vivid people you know. . . .The ambience and essence of matters uniquely Texan is a pervasive underscore to gripping themes and raw  rending conflicts. W.U. McCoy  from his new introduction\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45951522930741,"sku":"ByrdShop_0896724794","price":241.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780896724792.jpg?v=1788111789","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-bone-pickers-double-mountain-books-9780896724792","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}