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Exploding with colour and raw energy, this electrifying debut captures the spirit of a New York now long gone, a place of creation and destruction and endless possibility.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49535180275985,"sku":"GOR008232473","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49542819709201,"sku":"GOR008800426","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0241974496.jpg?v=1751443247"},{"product_id":"tuesday-nights-in-1980-book-molly-prentiss-9781501121050","title":"Tuesday Nights in 1980","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethrilling, vibrant debut\" (\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ethat follows a critic, an artist, and a desirous, determined young woman as they find their way--and ultimately collide--amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. 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Here are the artistes and the socialites, the dealers, bartenders, party-goers and hangers-on -- all trying to make it in the big city, teetering on the brink of selling out, searching for something to save them.  Among them is painter Raul Engales, in exile from Argentina's Dirty War and his own past. Fresh on the downtown scene and posing as an art student, he has just caught the eye of New York's most infamous art critic: James Bennett.   James has synaesthesia, experiencing life and art in wild, magical ways. He sees pictures as starbursts and fireworks, smells citrus when he says 'mother', and hears songs when he looks at sculptures. Art is James's gateway to endless new sensations, the secret to his success. In this city, his name is a byword for good taste -- until the day his gift deserts him.  And then there's Lucy: Raul's eager blonde muse. Newly escaped from the suburban nothingness of Idaho, impossibly young and still untouched by urban ennui, she is drawn like a firefly to the electric brilliance of the city-and especially to its artists...  Over the course of one year, these three lives will collide and be transformed. 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