{"product_id":"testing-the-current","title":"Testing the Current","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eTesting the Current\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eWilliam McPherson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781590176023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNYRB Classics\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2013\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eMain\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e352\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eGrowing up in a small upper Midwestern town in the late 1930s, young Tommy MacAllister is scarcely aware of the Depression, much less the rumblings of war in Europe. For his parents and their set, life seems to revolve around dinners and dancing at the country club, tennis dates and rounds of golf, holiday parties, summers on the Island, and sparkling occasions full of people and drinks and food and laughter. But curious as he is and impatient to grow up, Tommy will soon come to glimpse the darkness that lies beneath so much genteel complacency: hidden histories and embarrassing poor relations; the subtle (and not so subtle) slighting of the \"help\"; the mockery of President Roosevelt; and \"the commandment they talked least about in Sunday school,\" adultery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTesting the Current\u003c\/i\u003e William McPherson subtly sets off his wide-eyed protagonist's perspective with mature reflection and wry humor and surrounds him with a cast of vibrant characters, creating a scrupulously observed portrait of a place and time that will shimmer in readers' minds long after the final page is turned.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Testing the Current | William McPherson | Paperback | 9781590176023 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks B 1756730","offer_id":49149143023768,"sku":"1756730","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71o6SxnbIkL.jpg?v=1779524096","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/testing-the-current","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}