{"product_id":"a-game-of-inches-paperback","title":"A Game of Inches - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eS. R. Doss\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Life is like baseball\" young paratrooper Phillip Dee was told in the S.R. Doss novel \u003cem\u003eBlood on the Risers.\u003c\/em\u003e \"Sometimes you get a hit, sometimes the ball rolls foul. It's a game of inches.\" It is on the eve of the Vietnam War that Dee is led to realize life is indeed, like baseball, a matter of chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, in \u003cem\u003eA Game of Inches, \u003c\/em\u003e a novel set years later, Doss shows the reader how Dee himself becomes who he is by chance. In a three-part story he is seen as three entirely different men, depending on who he marries, three different women, each of them met more or less by accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere he is seen as a newspaper reporter, then as a Vietnam combat veteran, and finally as a college professor, in a story meant to illustrate how random events, such as who one meets and marries, determine who one becomes-as well as to amuse us about the way life is truly a matter of chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42099899596935,"sku":"9781948749756","price":12.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/475f622548021507d2e6ec57bde0fa86.webp?v=1732378785","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/a-game-of-inches-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}