{"product_id":"mr-peanut-book-adam-ross-9780307270702","title":"Mr. Peanut","description":"A\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNoteable Book \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMesmerizing, exhilarating, and profoundly moving, \u003ci\u003eMr. Peanut \u003c\/i\u003eis a police procedural of the soul, a poignant investigation of the relentlessly mysterious human heart. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Pepin has been in love with his wife, Alice, since the moment they met in a university seminar on Alfred Hitchcock. After thirteen years of marriage, he still can't imagine a remotely happy life without her--yet he obsessively contemplates her demise. Soon she \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e dead, and David is both deeply distraught and the prime suspect. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe detectives investigating Alice's suspicious death have plenty of personal experience with conjugal enigmas: Ward Hastroll is happily married until his wife inexplicably becomes voluntarily and militantly bedridden; and Sam Sheppard is especially sensitive to the intricacies of marital guilt and innocence, having decades before been convicted and then exonerated of the brutal murder of \u003ci\u003ehis \u003c\/i\u003ewife. Like the Escher drawings that inspire the computer games David designs for a living, these complex, interlocking dramas are structurally and emotionally intense, subtle, and intriguing; they brilliantly explore the warring impulses of affection and hatred, and pose a host of arresting questions. Is it possible to know anyone fully, \u003ci\u003ecompletely\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAre murder and marriage two sides of the same coin, each endlessly recycling into the other? And what, in the end, is the truth about love?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50284163105041,"sku":"CIN030727070XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50693240815889,"sku":"GOR002491081","price":17.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50776171381009,"sku":"GOR004503486","price":19.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50986340909329,"sku":"GOR014161404","price":15.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51321023136017,"sku":"CIN030727070XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51378011275537,"sku":"CIN030727070XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/030727070X.jpg?v=1786107928","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/mr-peanut-book-adam-ross-9780307270702","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}