{"product_id":"missouri","title":"Missouri","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten in the language of the period, this vivid and utterly transfixing love story between two men is set in the nineteenth-century American Midwest. Douglas Fortescue is a successful poet in England who flees the country for America following an Oscar Wilde-like scandal insinuating sexual impropriety; Joshua Jenkyns is a feral young outlaw who was taught how to shoot a man at age six, and who, against the wishes of his father, teaches himself how to read, a skill that then unleashes a world of possibility beyond that which he knows. The two men meet when Joshua robs Douglas's carriage and takes him hostage; soon, a remarkable secret is revealed, and these two very different men grow closer, even as Douglas's brother tries to \"save\" him from his uncivilized surroundings.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMissouri\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in Germany to wide acclaim. Now available in English for the first time, \u003ci\u003eMissouri\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to become a gay men's camp classic for its earnest, romantic reinterpretation of a time and place in American history traditionally closed off to gay readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christine Wunnicke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":44733315678501,"sku":"9781551523446","price":14.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/7851\/4725\/products\/BNCImageAPI_f5facf15-96ad-4d40-b5f7-23683634d673.jpg?v=1679348308","url":"https:\/\/crossandcrows.myshopify.com\/products\/missouri","provider":"Cross \u0026 Crows Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}