{"product_id":"the-avengers-dvd-0786936825084","title":"The Avengers","description":"\u003cp\u003eCombining the pathos and social significance of \u003ci\u003eFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-stop Caf \u003c\/i\u003e and the humor of \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Girls\u003c\/i\u003e with a cast of diverse characters worthy of the musical \u003ci\u003eRent\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFishwives\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles a lifetime through the eyes of two old women behaving badly.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn a cold winter day when eighty-nine-year old Regina and ninety-year-old Jackie--who met in 1955, an era when women were rounded up and jailed simply for dancing together or dressing like a man--manage to get themselves out of the house. With the help of TJ and Ramon, two young men from their working-class neighborhood in Western Massachusetts, they tie their long-dead Christmas tree to the top of their car and, using a screwdriver in place of a broken gearshift, slowly make the drive to the dump.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is also the day when everything changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the course of the day, memories are triggered, and their history as a passionate, devoted, but troubled couple at the intersection of historic cultural and political change unfolds via scenes from the past: their first meeting during a police raid on the bar; Regina's epiphany that she could truly love a woman; Jackie's persistent infidelity and gambling; a nomadic life often lived apart in the early years as they run away from landlords who discover their secret, toward jobs and a sustainable life, sometimes away from, but always back to each other; the Kennedy assassination, a backdrop to one reconciliation; Jackie's efforts to convince Regina to marry, Regina's saying yes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew elderly characters (and even fewer queers) depicted in fiction are seen in their full humanity. Rarer still are depictions of old people in the fullness of their sexuality. \u003ci\u003eFishwives\u003c\/i\u003e pulls back a long-closed curtain, revealing these aging women as sensual, loving, and flawed beings struggling with the harsh realities of life, including poverty, which Jackie calls that fishwife who gets louder and meaner in old age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo stories adapted from \u003ci\u003eFishwives\u003c\/i\u003e have won First Prize for Fiction at the Tennessee Williams Saints and Sinners Festival and along with a third excerpt have been published in anthologies connected with the festival. Adapted stories were also published in \u003ci\u003eBloom\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDappled Things\u003c\/i\u003e, a Catholic literary magazine. Dorothy Allison selected a short story Sunflowers, adapted from \u003ci\u003eFishwives\u003c\/i\u003e, for inclusion in \u003ci\u003eWalking the Edge: A Southern Gothic Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49687636377873,"sku":"DVDB0083SBJXSVG","price":7.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53423278031121,"sku":"CINB0083SBJXSVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53428136247569,"sku":"CINB0083SBJXSG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B0083SBJXS.jpg?v=1750906459","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/the-avengers-dvd-0786936825084","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}