{"product_id":"9780811202381-secondhand-white-mule-novel","title":"White Mule: Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliams was foremost a poet, but the novels are of great interest. They are important books in their own right, because they present with a poet's insight, and in a prose style of striking originality, aspects of American life which few other writers have approached.  White Mule  and its sequels,  In the Money  and  The Build-Up , form a trilogy, the saga of the Stecher family, but each volume is a complete novel by itself. Joe Stecher and Gurlie, his wife, are a young couple of European origin settled in New York at the turn of the century and working to make a place for themselves in the new world.  White Mule  is the story of Joe's inner struggle between love of fine craftsmanship (he is a printer by trade) and Gurlie's ambition to get ahead, to have him get \"in the money.\" But it also the story of the awakening consciousness of their children; the real heroine is the baby Flossie--she had a kick like \"White Mule\" whiskey--whose birth begins the book. Everything revolves around the baby and she is surely unique in literature. Dr. Williams was a pediatrician, and without sentimentality he makes of this little being, who cannot even talk, a full-scale, three-dimensional personality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48856978030811,"sku":"9780811202381-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/9780811202381-us-300.jpg?v=1781059700","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780811202381-secondhand-white-mule-novel","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}