{"product_id":"lifes-lure","title":"Life's Lure","description":"Coming four years after \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn Builder\u003c\/i\u003e (1910), John G. Neihardt's second novel portrays the lives of Black Hills miners and of those who preyed on them. \u003ci\u003eLife's Lure\u003c\/i\u003e takes up a theme that runs throughout Neihardt's work: the consequences of an inordinate desire for wealth. \u003cp\u003eThe protagonists come in sets of three. On one hand there are Samuel Drake, a hapless thirty-year-old who has just squandered his inheritance in a Deadwood card game; his fickle wife Joy; and Louis Devlin, a smooth-talking, fast-fingered gentleman gambler. Devlin is not above talking about philosophy; he even paraphrases Nietzsche. On the other hand are Monte Joe, a drunken scoundrel, Punkins, a young man fresh off the farm, guileless and easy pickings; and Nellie, a mining-camp prostitute. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWomen and gold lure men to go on living, but Fortune is \"a capricious jilt.\" Neihardt puts a lot of colorful characters in motion and then, along with the reader, watches them collide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54253424935256,"sku":"9780803233331","price":47.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780803233331__67657d89a333c.jpg?v=1741135524","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/lifes-lure","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}