{"product_id":"palisades-park-paperback","title":"Palisades Park - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Brennert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBestseller Alan Brennert's spellbinding story about a family of dreamers and their lives within the legendary Palisades Amusement Park \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrowing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey--especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell homemade French fries amid the roar of the Cyclone roller coaster. There is also the lure of the world's biggest salt-water pool, complete with divers whose astonishing stunts inspire Toni, despite her mother's insistence that girls can't be high divers. \u003cbr\u003eBut a family of dreamers doesn't always share the same dreams, and then the world intrudes: There's the Great Depression, and Pearl Harbor, which hits home in ways that will split the family apart; and perils like fire and race riots in the park. Both Eddie and Jack face the dangers of war, while Adele has ambitions of her own--and Toni is determined to take on a very different kind of danger in impossible feats as a high diver. Yet they are all drawn back to each other--and to Palisades Park--until the park closes forever in 1971. \u003cbr\u003eEvocative and moving, with the trademark brilliance at transforming historical events into irresistible fiction that made Alan Brennert's \u003ci\u003eMoloka'i \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHonolulu\u003c\/i\u003e into reading group favorites, \u003ci\u003ePalisades Park \u003c\/i\u003etakes us back to a time when life seemed simpler--except, of course, it wasn't.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eALAN BRENNERT grew up in Edgewater, New Jersey, at the foot of the Palisades. He won an Emmy Award in 1991 for his work as a writer-producer on \u003ci\u003eL.A. Law, \u003c\/i\u003eand was nominated for two other Emmy Awards as well as a Golden Globe. He won a Nebula Award for his story Ma Qui. The author of the national bestsellers \u003ci\u003eMoloka'i, \u003c\/i\u003e a Bookies award-winner for Book Club Book of the Year, and \u003ci\u003eHonolulu, \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e's Lettres 2009 Grand Prix for Fiction, he lives in Sherman Oaks, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 29, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42720339886143,"sku":"9781250038173","price":25.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/771f11600cc727f80d26f105d6cf6bd1.webp?v=1765088804","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/palisades-park-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}