{"product_id":"an-almost-book-a-breezy-reminiscence-of-boulder-colorado-is-gate-crashed-by-a-less-than-perfect-pregnancy-9780615393896","title":"An Almost Book: A Breezy Reminiscence of Boulder, Colorado is Gate-Crashed by a Less Than Perfect Pregnancy","description":"In 1986, on the first day of his 40th year, the author starts writing a \"harmless memoir of my careless youth.\" He mimics Jack Kerouac and starts typing on butcher paper. What \"flows\" is a book full of boyhood memories certainly, but also a book of ideas in progress (about baseball, about fate, about writing itself) written with stylistic idiosyncrasies that make the book different without being weird. Things change abruptly for the author when \"current events\" intrude and his wife's troubled pregnancy (which he decides to incorporate into his writing of the past) makes him look at his own misgivings and fears. This intertwining of remembering the past while facing up to things as they happen gives the book a powerful denouement no reader is likely to forget.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Jacobsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Condor's Quill Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.29d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780615393896\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn and raised in Boulder, Colorado, Mr. Jacobsen went to college in the Midwest, served (reluctantly) in Vietnam, moved to NYC where he worked for the federal government in Harlem and the New York Times in dear ole Midtown, got married and now lives (reluctantly) in New Jersey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Condor's Quill Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40070589251699,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_6df454d0-09f8-4164-8374-9c9e387381cf.jpg?v=1651931864","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/an-almost-book-a-breezy-reminiscence-of-boulder-colorado-is-gate-crashed-by-a-less-than-perfect-pregnancy-9780615393896","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}