{"product_id":"polostan-hardcover","title":"Polostan (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series--an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first installment in Neal Stephenson's Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSet against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephenson, Neal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52638337859858,"sku":"9780062334497","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/4549073482210.jpg?v=1787604557","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/polostan-hardcover","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}