{ "item_title" : "The Small Hours", "item_author" : [" Corva Linnet "], "item_description" : "At 1 a.m. she is the warmest voice in Ohio. By daylight she can barely say hello to her own neighbour. She has ninety days left on the air.Delia Pryor hosts The Small Hours on a struggling AM station in Kestrel, Ohio - one to five in the morning, four nights a week, the shift that belongs to insomniacs, long-haul drivers, night nurses and the newly alone. For nineteen years she has been the lit window on a dark street. Then the station is sold, and she is given ninety nights to say everything she has.What follows is not a rescue. It is something better: an eighty-four-year-old widower confessing that he still sets out two cups. A trucker mailing postcards to a daughter who never writes back. A teenager making coffee he does not drink so his father will sit down. A woman from Bulgaria who calls and says nothing at all, for weeks, because this is the only voice in Ohio slow enough to learn from.And a host who is magnificent with strangers and useless with the three people who love her - until a mother, a daughter and a neighbour with a snow shovel force her to try being that person in daylight.WHAT'S INSIDE- An ensemble told in voices: each chapter braids one night of calls with the daytime life the listeners never hear- A cast of ordinary people - a night nurse, a dispatcher, a baker at 2 a.m., a plough driver, a chronic complainer with a sister in Sandusky- The second cup that turns eleven thousand strangers into neighbours- An ice storm that takes out the power and turns a fifty-year-old transmitter into a lifeline- One thousand one hundred and forty mismatched cups, each with a name on masking tape- A hopeful, hard-won, entirely non-miraculous ending", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/4/19/559/290/4195592909_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "56.20", "online_price" : "56.20", "our_price" : "56.20", "club_price" : "56.20", "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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