{"product_id":"2940012634009","title":"October Revolution","description":"Sixties radical author Rod Huxley has spent decades holed up in a Denver apartment with only his cats for company, hiding from the fallout of his once popular Cookbook for Revolution, written at the urging of former girlfriend and admirer Sara Caine.  With the success of Cookbook came a certain, if fleeting, celebrity status and – via generous financial support from the unbalanced heir to a South American rubber fortune – the unpalatable realization that he was a phony.  Since then, Huxley has withdrawn from the world, watching at a distance as society lurches along, scratching his head at its foibles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut his self-imposed exile is not to last.  When he wrote Cookbook, little did he think it would spawn both the disastrous Iowa City Bee-In of 1973 and a mawkish guitar oratorio on the life of a “failed revolutionary.”  Less still did he imagine it would precipitate a hostage crisis of national interest decades later.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs October Revolution begins, a terrorist is detaining a group of tourists at a Burger King in Washington, D.C., demanding Huxley’s presence in exchange for their release.  Soon the FBI, led by the ineffectual Agent Fenwick, is knocking at Huxley’s door, ready to escort him to the nation’s capital.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnable to tolerate his talkative companion, Huxley gives Fenwick the slip and makes his way to Washington alone, determined the face the mysterious terrorist, whose identity he can only guess at.  Who is this hostage taker, and what does he want?  As Huxley confronts the answers, he must also confront himself, his past – and his future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOctober Revolution is the book hailed as “a remarkable first novel” by three separate publications.  “Got back home and read your book with much ease, excitement, and pleasure,” wrote Catch-22 author Joseph Heller when contributing an endorsement.  “I found it ‘a lighthearted, dandy satire with a humorous plot and a variety of deft pops at many deserving targets.’”  Originally published by the University Press of Colorado, the hardcover edition of October Revolution ran 201 pages in length.","brand":"M\u0026G","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180018778352,"sku":"2940012634009","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012634009_p0.jpg?v=1763571131","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012634009","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}