{"product_id":"table-money","title":"Table Money","description":"Description for TABLE MONEY by Jimmy Breslin: \u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nThe year is 1970.  Owney Morrison is back from Vietnam with a Congressional Medal of Honor, which is not negotiable currency in the borough of Queen's in New York City.  Oh sure, there's a free drink every now and then, which Owney doesn't need.  He is in big trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nBy day, Owney is---almost by heredity---a sandhog, a digger of tunnels whose work is backbreaking and terrifyingly dangerous.  But night, his main adversary come at him from inside a bottle, while his wife, Dolores, and their infant child look on helplessly.  Owney may not make it; Dolores just may have a shot---but only if she has the heart and the stomach to pay the fearsome cost of becoming her own woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nBreslin is back on the turf he has made his own:  Queens Boulevard with its artful hustlers and blowzy beehives, its dedicated grifters and solid citizens.  No one knows them better:  Kellerman, the lunatic old union guy, whose wild eyes burn with Trotsky fire; Sharon the barmaid, under whose laconic style lies a parching thirst for retribution; McNiff, a renaissance shyster whose normal courtroom attire features bathrobe and carpet slippers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nFrom his home base in the caretaker's house in the endless sprawl of a cemetery, Owney blunders forth into a world of his own making, but a world, nonetheless, that want no part of him.  Something has to give.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nJimmy Breslin has been at work on this body-blow of a novel for some ten years.  He is older now and probably wiser.  He has reached a peak power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Connies Bookshelf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42955011096792,"sku":"B002MQRSU0","price":3.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/9099\/4904\/products\/TableMoney.jpg?v=1655003678","url":"https:\/\/conniesbookshelf.com\/products\/table-money","provider":"Connies Bookshelf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}