{"product_id":"sometimes-it-was-beautiful","title":"Sometimes It Was Beautiful","description":"\u003cp\u003eSOMETIMES IT WAS BEAUTIFUL is a very different kind of book in the annals of work published in the American and African-African tradition. It is a true to life story told by PT Armstrong, a man whose incredible life began as the son of an impoverished sharecropper in Texas but who survived those slave-like beginnings to experience the kind of adventures that only a handful of people are still alive to talk about.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eDespite such life-threatening adversities as severe poverty and Jim Crow racismÑwhen we worked as a ÒmuleskinnerÓ-- Armstrong tended to be Òlucky in love.Ó In SOMETIMES IT WAS BEAUTIFUL, he balances his report on the hardships of life for a young black man during the middle years of the twentieth century in America with tales of a young man constantly in search of love.  Whether strongly erotic, humorous, or sad, the story of his quest for love is an unflinchingly honest one.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eThe memoir employs dialect that is true to the era and place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PT Armstrong","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44933651038369,"sku":"9781300049739","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1e8r4vkr-front-shortedge-384_09645511-45dd-4240-b3dc-7309571abfa5.jpg?v=1748395183","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/sometimes-it-was-beautiful","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}