{"product_id":"the-broken-places-9781399602310b","title":"The Broken Places","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e'Sunlit and dark, painful and joyous' David Mitchell, author of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1931, Gregory Hemingway's life begins in Kansas City, Missouri. The third and favourite child of an overbearing father, Greg is a paragon: a star athlete, a crack shot, bright and handsome and built like a pocket battleship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2001, Gloria Hemingway's life ends in a Miami women's correctional institution. Complex and contradictory, radiant and resilient, it is a life that has flourished against the odds and been lived to the full.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by true events and spanning seventy years of the last century, this is the story of a miraculous existence, told with beauty and compassion. Transporting the reader back and forth in time, from Cuba to New York and Montana to Florida, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Broken Places\u003c\/span\u003e explores what it means to grow up in the shadow of a man famous for his masculinity, to bear the weight of expectation and a tragic family legacy, and to finally step out into the light.","brand":"Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42822614843472,"sku":"9781399602310B","price":8.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781399602310-l.jpg?v=1785888714","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-broken-places-9781399602310b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}