{"_id":"67f9cbc861b24ea9a13fd474","title":"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button","author":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","code":"the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button","publish_year":1922,"publish_source":"Collier’s","publish_edition":"Vol. 69, No. 21","publish_scan":"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015019077232&seq=655","words":9162,"image":"oldman.jpg","image_alt":"An old man. Graphite filter","genres":["quirky","literary"],"description":"Roger Button is shocked to find his newborn son appears to be a man of about 70. But seeing as this is impossible, he chooses to raise little Benjamin Button like any other little boy.","blurb":"Men ran hatless out of classes, the football team abandoned its practice and joined the mob, professors’ wives with bonnets awry and bustles out of position, ran shouting after the procession, from which proceeded a continual succession of remarks aimed at the tender sensibilities of Benjamin Button.","rating":5,"unique_cover":"Sketch of a proud man in a suit walking an old man dressed in boy clothes by the hand down a street.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"choice","title":"Librarian’s Picks","collection_type":"static"}]}