{"product_id":"2940012135124","title":"The End of Miss Kind","description":"When a quiet young woman is murdered with awful precision in her quiet, anonymous Hollywood apartment, it comes as no surprise that within a matter of hours her relatives are contacted, a film deal is struck and a screenplay commissioned. For sensitive journeyman writer Samuel Johnson, it is the chance to finally make a mark, to work with successful producer Sol Seagull and contribute, in a small way, to the Hollywood dream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut in taking the job, Samuel finds himself reluctantly drawn into a twilight world where all the cliches ring true: where vulgar B-move stars spend their afternoon in a haze of tequila... and where the only person who seems to have cared about a plain, overweight office worker is her murderer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe End of Miss Kind is a lovely, lyrical, noirish Hollywood murder mystery, the best - and last - work from the acclaimed author of Slow Dance on the Fault Line.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brutally gorgeous, triumphantly lyrical, and unmistakably brilliant. Donald Rawley makes myth of our contemporary lives.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Kate Braverman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rawley's writing blazes unapologetically fecund and startling, like some kind of bird of paradise from Mars. It is a literary movement in itself.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Sandra Tsing Loh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Donald Rawley is the literary equivalent of amyl nitrate. Reading this searing talent may give you a heart attack, but you'll die with a twisted, sated smile of gratitude on your lips.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight","brand":"Lukeman Literary","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162432618736,"sku":"2940012135124","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012135124_p0.jpg?v=1763552664","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012135124","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}