{"product_id":"man-on-a-road-and-other-stories-9780714550985","title":"Man on a Road and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe titular story in this collection, Man on a Road'  which famously led to the 1936 congressional hearings that exposed the worst industrial disaster in American history  is a snapshot of appalling capitalist exploitation from the perspective of a walking-dead miner slowly suffocating from silicosis. The Happiest Man on Earth', winner of the 1938 O. Henry Award, is about a man who, desperate to feed his family and regain his dignity, embarks on a long journey on foot in his quest for a job, while The Way Things Are' renders the terrors of the Jim Crow South with unflinching realism, foreshadowing the aesthetics and politics of the civil-rights movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlbert Maltz, one of the Hollywood Ten of the McCarthy era, spent ten months in prison and twenty years on the blacklist as a banned artist forced to write under a pseudonym. With this collection of stories, spanning forty years of his career and including previously uncollected works, his long-silenced voice returns, re-establishing him as a master of hard-hitting but compassionate short fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alma Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862904340823,"sku":"9780714550985","price":8.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780714550985.jpg?v=1759919048","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/man-on-a-road-and-other-stories-9780714550985","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}