{"product_id":"books-turn-of-the-century-by-kurt-andersen","title":"Turn of the Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eA big, sprawling book . . .  Kurt Andersen has] infused it with so much inventive imagination. . . . Should be put in a Manhattan time capsule with the note: 'This is how we lived at the turn of the century.' --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In his brash, brilliant first novel, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Kurt Andersen casts a penetrating eye on our giddy, media-obsessed era. With a keen sense of irony and a storyteller's grace, he weaves a tale that is at once a biting satire and a wickedly incisive portrait of marriage, family, love, and friendship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The millennium is here. BarbieWorld has opened in Las Vegas. Charles Manson's parole hearing is on live TV. And George and Lizzie are a Manhattan power couple with three kids in private school and take-out from Hiroshima Boy waiting at the door. Lizzie owns a software start-up. George is a TV producer. With cell phones tickling their thighs and gossip buzzing in their ears, their future couldn't be brighter. Until, that is, Lizzie cuts a deal with George's boss and gets an office \u003ci\u003etwenty-one floors\u003c\/i\u003e above her husband's. Until all the glitter and the hype threaten to destroy George's and Lizzie's sanity and their marriage. Until the only thing that can save them is a little understanding--at a time when everyone is talking but no one hears a thing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eSavagely subversive . . . a smart, funny and excruciatingly deft portrait of our age.--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eInspired . . . astonishing . . . very funny.--\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA big, Tom Wolfe-ish New York comic novel . . . on the last breath of the century.--\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669501632785,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780385335041.jpg?v=1781508827","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-turn-of-the-century-by-kurt-andersen","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}