{"product_id":"2940015696097","title":"THE WORLD'S MOST HANDSOME MAN","description":"His mama got knocked up one hot Hollywood night by Cary Grant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOr maybe it was John Wayne.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe isn't quite sure as she was quite snockered at the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was all a big fat blur from which came a big fat bastard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo, not sure who the daddy is, she names her fourteen-pound-four-ounce bubbling, blubbery baby after both: Wayne Grant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne would think that a lad with such pedigree would grow up to be a handsome hunk and get into pictures. But his is not a face like Cary Grant's. Nor is his body even closely resembling John Wayne's.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut try telling this homely schnook, this delusional doofus, this portly putz, as he doggedly auditions for handsome leading-man roles and becomes the laughing stock of Tinseltown.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter Wayne's world and discover the most unusual lap dancers, rhyming ruffians, looney goons, conniving cons, flimflam scams, murder, mayhem, misfits, moguls, megastars, mishuginahs—and the world's most handsome man!\u003cbr\u003eYou'll also discover Hollywood's seedy underbelly—and many a belly laugh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* * * * * * * * *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for THE WORLD'S MOST HANDSOME MAN:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If Elmore Leonard wrote a 30's screwball comedy set in the lowlife crime world of 90’s L.A. it might have come out like THE WORLD'S MOST HANDSOME MAN. Yes, it’s that weird. You should take this ride.” — Christopher Moore,\u003cbr\u003eNY Times Bestselling Author of LAMB and FOOL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Madcap and wicked: a very funny novel.\" —T. C. Boyle, Pen\/Faulkner Award-winning Author of WORLD’S END, DROP CITY and THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bravo!! What a whacky, crazy, funny story. I finished it laughing.” —Elizabeth McKenzie, author of STOP THAT GIRL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Trouble with most novelists is their dialogue. Not this time. Edwin\u003cbr\u003eHeaven gets it right.” —Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author of A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A sweet, shameless wisecracking wonder of a book ... a little bit West, a\u003cbr\u003elittle bit Toole, a little bit Robbins—the rest is pure Heaven!” —John Hawkes, Oscar-nominated film star, Winter's Bone; Me and You and Everyone We Know; Deadwood; American Gangster,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Look out world, Edwin Heaven is the next big thing in modern-day\u003cbr\u003eliterature. He’s every superlative I can think of: funny, intelligent,\u003cbr\u003etwisted, perverted. The World’s Most Handsome Man is from the mind\u003cbr\u003eof a demented genius.”—Marshal Terrill, author of STEVE MCQUEEN: PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN REBEL","brand":"Writes Like Hell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071003836656,"sku":"2940015696097","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015696097_p0.jpg?v=1763622890","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015696097","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}