{"product_id":"falconer-book-dana-czapnik-9781501193231","title":"The Falconer","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Choice Pick \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence. It has restored my faith in pretty much everything. --Ann Patchett, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCommonwealth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e An] electric debut novel.Reader, beware: Spending time with Lucy is unapologetic fun, and heartbreak, and awe as well. --Chloe Malle, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this frank, bittersweet coming-of-age story that crackles with raw adolescent energy, fresh-cut prose, and a kinetic sense of place (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), a teenaged tomboy explores love, growing up, and New York City in the early 1990s. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNew York, 1993. Street-smart seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler is often the only girl on the public basketball courts. Lucy's inner life is a contradiction. She's by turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed, and, despite herself, is in unrequited love with her best friend and pickup teammate, Percy, the rebellious son of a prominent New York family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Lucy begins to question accepted notions of success, bristling against her own hunger for male approval, she is drawn into the world of a pair of provocative feminist artists living in what remains of New York's bohemia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold with wit and pathos, \u003ci\u003eThe Falconer\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a novel of ideas, a portrait of a time and place, and an ode to the obsessions of youth. In her critically acclaimed debut, Dana Czapnik captures the voice of an unforgettable modern literary heroine, a young woman in the first flush of freedom.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50378954768657,"sku":"CIN1501193236G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53155786359057,"sku":"CIN1501193236VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1501193236.jpg?v=1750957042","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/falconer-buch-dana-czapnik-9781501193231","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}