{"product_id":"2940000806777","title":"The Brightest Moon of the Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his fourth award-winning book, Christopher Meeks offers a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel. A young Minnesotan, Edward, is blessed with an abundance of \"experience\"--first when his mother dies and next when his father, an encyclopedia salesman, shoehorns Edward into a private boys school where he's tortured and groomed. He needs a place in the universe, but he wants an understanding of women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward stumbles into romance in high school, careens through dorm life in college, whirls into a tornado of love problems as a mini-mart owner in a trailer park in Alabama, and aims for a film career in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn nine chapters, the reader experiences Edward's life from ages 14 to 45. This novel follows Meeks's highly acclaimed collections of short stories, The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea and Months and Seasons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A truly great novel in the tradition of Charles Dickens and John Irving.\" --Marc Schuster, Small Press Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christopher Meeks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163906326768,"sku":"2940000806777","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940000806777_p0.jpg?v=1763546250","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940000806777","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}