{ "item_title" : "The Slackers", "item_author" : [" Manuel Tiago", "Eric A. Gordon "], "item_description" : "This book, Slackers, is a collection of short stories, part of International Publisher's ongoing Manuel Tiago seriesThe title story, The Slackers, deals humorously with a mixed bag of misfits who are forced to report to a military correctional camp to complete their obligatory service. As in several of his other works of fiction, Tiago, ( lvaro Cunhal), based his tale on his own life. For a time, in late 1939 and early 1940, Cunhal was forced to complete his military service in a Disciplinary Company.Hand in Hand is a teenage love story set against the background of the post-1974 public flowering of the Communist Party as a significant partner in the democratic reconstruction of the country. In this story the author once again calls upon his own memories, having served as a very young man as leader of the Federation of Portuguese Communist Youth. Parallel Stories is the centerpiece of the collection, the longest and most developed story in this volume, essentially a novella. Set in contemporary democratic times, we see a small regional Communist Party organization struggling with its past as primarily a party of the working class at a time when the working class itself was undergoing profound changes.The final story, Lives, reads like the treatment of an epic-long family saga, or even a sprawling multi-season TV miniseries. Its timeframe is deliberately obscure, although to be sure, there is an automobile that plays a small part toward the end. Otherwise, we seem to hover anywhere between the late 19th century all the way up through the mid-20th. ", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/71/780/884/071780884X_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "19.99", "online_price" : "19.99", "our_price" : "19.99", "club_price" : "19.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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