{"product_id":"wide-blue-yonder-9780743229586","title":"Wide Blue Yonder","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom National Book Award-finalist Jean Thompson comes a compelling, highly charged novel about a family ruled by the weather, the drastic changes that hit their atmosphere, and a midwestern town where chaos doesn't reign -- it pours.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Something big is headed for Springfield, Illinois, a place where weather of all kinds -- climatic, emotional, and even metaphysical -- tends to come in extremes. It is the summer of 1999, and through the long months of blazing heat and fearsome tempests, a quirky quartet of locals will try to ride out the stormy season, each in their own way. \u003cbr\u003e Uncle Harvey believes he is the embodiment of the Weather Channel's \"Local Forecast,\" even though all meteorological evidence points to the contrary. His niece, Josie, is fixed with a different predicament -- she's young and pretty, with nowhere to go except into deep trouble. Her mother, Elaine, lives under a façade of cheerful efficiency, desperately masking a far more urgent quest. And all of them are caught in the path of the loner Rolando -- a human cyclone from the West, fueled by a boundless rage and determined to make Springfield the focal point of his wrath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean Thompson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743229586\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/29\/2002 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThompson, Jean:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jean Thompson is a novelist and short story writer. Her works include the novels \u003ci\u003eA Cloud in the Shape of a Girl, She Poured Out Her Heart, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Humanity Project, The Year We Left Home, City Boy, Wide Blue Yonder, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Driver, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMy Wisdom \u003c\/i\u003eand the short story collections \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWitch and Other Tales Re\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003eTold, Do Not Deny Me, Throw Like a Girl, Who Do\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eYou Love \u003c\/i\u003e(a National Book Award finalist), \u003ci\u003eLittle Face and Other Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Gasoline Wars. \u003c\/i\u003eThompson's short fiction has been published in many magazines and journals, including the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e and anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Pushcart\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePrize. \u003c\/i\u003eThompson has been the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, among other accolades, and has taught creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Reed College, Northwestern University, and other colleges and universities. She lives in Urbana, Illinois.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40779898159219,"sku":"9.78074E+12","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ed21a974-8fac-4467-b573-2e9d7697c0f7.jpg?v=1680617713","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/wide-blue-yonder-9780743229586","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}