{"product_id":"willing-book-scott-spencer-9780060760151","title":"Willing","description":"\u003cp\u003eHailed as the contemporary American master of the love story (\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e), bestselling author Scott Spencer takes us on a psychologically intense--and brilliantly funny--journey inside the world of international sex tourism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAvery Jankowsky is a thirty-seven-year-old Manhattan writer scraping by on freelance assignments. Despite his lack of ambition, and very much to his own surprise, he has won the affections of Deirdre, a Columbia grad student many years his junior. But when Deirdre tells him that she has been having an affair, Avery's world is shattered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeside himself with jealousy and grief, Avery heads across town to meet his uncle Ezra for their monthly lunch date. Ezra senses his nephew's fragile emotional state and makes a startling proposition: Avery should use his tickets to an all-expenses-paid international sex tour. Sensing a white-hot book idea (and a chance to get back at Deirdre), Avery agrees to go as an undercover journalist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the tour bounces from one Nordic country to another, Avery and his fellow travelers--most of them wealthy and accomplished--descend ever deeper into a blinding world that is equal parts hilarity and nightmare, until Avery suddenly finds himself face-to-face with the one person he never expected to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA two-time National Book Award finalist, Spencer has already given us some of the most remarkable tales of love and passion in contemporary American fiction. \u003cem\u003eWilling\u003c\/em\u003e is at once a lighter and a darker performance, a startling tour de force that explores the limits of male restraint, the intoxications of privilege, the maddening dangers of freedom, and the knockdown, drag-out fight between our instincts and our better natures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49591022190865,"sku":"GOR013326039","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49759190679825,"sku":"CIN006076015XG","price":3.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51424301941009,"sku":"CIN006076015XVG","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/006076015X.jpg?v=1750778426","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/willing-book-scott-spencer-9780060760151","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}