{"product_id":"9780795300240","title":"How Green Was My Valley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe international-bestselling winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Academy Award–winning film directed by John Ford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Huw Morgan remembers the days when his home valley was prosperous, verdant, and beautiful—before the mines came to town. The youngest son of a respectable mining family in South Wales, he is now the only one left in the valley, and his reminiscences tell the story of a family and a town both defined and ruined by the mines.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Huw’s story is both joyful and heartrending—a portrait of a place and a people existing now only in memory.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Full of memorable characters, richly crafted language, and surprising humor, \u003ci\u003eHow Green Was My Valley \u003c\/i\u003eis the first of four books chronicling Huw’s life, including the sequels \u003ci\u003eUp into the Singing Mountain, Down Where the Moon is Small\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGreen, Green My Valley Now\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The reader emerges from these tense pages strangely aglow with sharing the happiness of the characters . . . The simplicity of the language and its delicately strange flavor give the book added charm.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42524062941245,"sku":"9780795300240","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780795300240_p0.jpg?v=1771579217","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780795300240","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}