{"product_id":"award-1","title":"Award","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Grips the reader and never lets go\"--\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Award\u003c\/i\u003e begins as a wryly funny satire of thwarted literary ambition but quickly evolves into something darker and more disturbing. Matthew Pearl's addictive and propulsive novel has the twisted nightmare logic of a Patricia Highsmith thriller.\"--Tom Perrotta, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eTracy Flick Can't Win\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMrs. Fletcher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dante Club\u003c\/i\u003e comes the word-of-mouth sensation, a thrilling, twisty story about a young writer trying to make his way through a cutthroat literary scene with life-and-death stakes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Trent is an aspiring novelist hoping to make a name for himself in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a place where ambitious writers lurk around every corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe lives in an apartment above a Very Famous Author named Silas Hale, who, behind his celebrated image, is . . . haughty and disdainful, definitely not of the mentor variety. Until David wins a prestigious award for his new book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilas is at last interested . . . and jealous. But soon the administrator of the award comes to David with alarming news, which forces the writer into a set of desperate choices. Then fate intervenes--and nothing can ever go back to normal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the wit and psychological wisdom of Jean Hanff Korelitz's bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe Plot\u003c\/i\u003e and Teddy Wayne's \u003ci\u003eThe Winner, The Award \u003c\/i\u003eis a timely, razor-sharp, and unputdownable novel about secrets, ambition, human foibles, and the dangerous things we will do to get ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matthew Pearl","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47481283313900,"sku":"9780063445284","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780063445284.jpg?v=1775638670","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/award-1","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}