{"product_id":"9780571273188","title":"Palo Alto by James Franco","description":"Palo Alto is the debut of a powerful new literary voice.  Written with an immediacy and sense of place Palo Alto traces the lives of an extended group of  teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with  their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often  heartless nihilism. Franco presents his characters in all their raw  humanity, while at the same time providing insight into the teenage  mind.   In the classic American tradition of story-cycles such as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Palo Alto presents a stark, vivid, disturbing, but, above all, compassionate portrait of lives on the rough fringes of youth.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311806329205,"sku":"9780571273188","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571273188.jpg?v=1762819439","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780571273188","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}