{"product_id":"five-old-guys-paperback","title":"Five Old Guys - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald H. Gean\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Five Old Guys are all dead now, as are most of the once homeless people in this book, but the long sad line, coming up behind them, hosts several million more of our neighbors, all so poor they cannot afford to go to that place we all go when the darkness comes-a home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e These are stories about a few of the thousands of homeless folks who found their way to the campus of the York County Shelter Programs, in an unlikely corner of New England during the end of the twentieth century, but forecast by Robert Frost earlier in the century: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Home, he mocked gently.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Yes, what else but home?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It all depends on what you mean by home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Of course he's nothing to us any more\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Than was the hound that came a stranger to us\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Out of the woods, worn out upon the trail'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Home is the place where, when you go there, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e They have to take you in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e They are all real people with mothers and fathers, warts and halos, and not one of them ever dreamed that what they would become when they grew up-was homeless. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 132\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 11, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42728590737471,"sku":"9781648012716","price":19.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/3dc08268918fb2d5995f6768278ca685.webp?v=1765119062","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/five-old-guys-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}