{"product_id":"white-mule-novel","title":"White Mule: Novel","description":"Williams 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. \u003cem\u003eWhite Mule\u003c\/em\u003e and its sequels, \u003cem\u003eIn the Money\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Build-Up\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003cem\u003eWhite Mule\u003c\/em\u003e 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.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833659109581,"sku":"9780811202381","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_d6232948-b2cb-4d57-aa3f-cba1a23779e4.jpg?v=1790892735","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/white-mule-novel","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}