{"product_id":"where-dreams-die-hard-a-small-american-town-and-its-six-man-football-team-9780306814976","title":"Where Dreams Die Hard: A Small American Town and Its Six-Man Football Team","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Carlton Stowers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Football\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDown Farm Road 308, an hour's drive south of Dallas, amidst sprawling fields of cotton lies a small community--Penelope, Texas (population 211). Here, where the only thriving businesses are the granary and the post office, unless you count the soft-drink machine in front of the fire station, two-time Edgar Award-winning writer Carlton Stowers discovered a special town that came together, not only to support their six-man highschool football team--the Penelope Wolverines--through thick and a lot of thin, but also, and more importantly, each other. \u003ci\u003eWhere Dreams Die Hard\u003c\/i\u003e is a warm and revealing portrait of the American heartland--and of one small town's love affair with the team that unites it. \"Through his unforgettable depiction of innocence, goodness, loyalty, and friendship...Carlton Stowers gives us a moving portrait of a community that, in the words of one of the Penelope faithful, is like 'stepping into a Norman Rockwell painting.'\" (Billie Letts, author of \u003ci\u003eWhere the Heart Is\u003c\/i\u003e) \"High school football in Texas is both sport and religion, and Stowers brilliantly brings this to light in Where Dreams Die Hard.\" (Jim Dent, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Junction Boys\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45355558764695,"sku":"9780306814976","price":1456.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780306814976.webp?v=1767308862","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/where-dreams-die-hard-a-small-american-town-and-its-six-man-football-team-9780306814976","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}