{"product_id":"beastie-boys-move-on-up-dvd-0823564526294","title":"Beastie Boys: Move on Up","description":"Emilie Glen (1906-1995) was best known as a poet, but she started her writing career in fiction, first published in H.L. Mencken's \u003cem\u003eThe American Mercury, Prairie Schooner, \u003c\/em\u003e and other magazines. In these nineteen short stories, Glen presents a portrait of mid-20th century America, using penetrating character portraits to show a world already nearly-gone, its customs and manners as odd to some of us as those of an Amazonian people. A keen observer of manners and of the human drama, Emilie Glen centers sometimes on family drama: a high-stakes croquet game among heirs, the prize a Bermuda resort hotel; a mother and daughter competing for the same man; an Irish mother and daughter trapped in poverty in Hells' Kitchen, each wanting the best; and a wealthy matron in the Hamptons determined to stop her son from marrying a Latina girl. From a time when religion ruled the heartland, Glen writes about a town struggling with the worst preacher ever; a minister fired for his liberal values during the McCarthy era; and a woman forced to choose between becoming a minister's wife, or being ordained herself to take over her father's church. Other stories are wonderful character portraits: a country woman whose life is changed when she comes into possession of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; a bored office worker with a secret hobby of purse-snatching; a businessman who would rather be a street beggar; the man determined to be top of the pecking order among the Central Park bird-watchers; a young girl determined to get her first ballet shoes; a dancer locked in a fierce rivalry and obsession over a Siamese cat; a husband and wife living off the earnings of a child model; an industrialist whose entire existence is defined by ladies' feet; and a desperate song-writer knocking on the doors of music publishers. This volume also includes From This Window, Glen's experiment in prose poetry.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50273086734609,"sku":"DVDB0059B8066VG","price":2.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B0059B8066.jpg?v=1751035563","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/beastie-boys-move-on-up-dvd-0823564526294","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}