{"product_id":"award","title":"Award","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrips 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 intervenesand 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":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57495298736501,"sku":"9780063445284","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/award","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}