{"product_id":"2940169091342","title":"Version Control: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of Perpetual Motion \u003c\/i\u003ereturns with a compelling novel about the effects of science and technology on our friendships, our love lives, and our sense of self.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca Wright has reclaimed her life, finding her way out of her grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days working in customer support for the internet dating site where she first met her husband. But she has a strange, persistent sense that everything around her is somewhat off-kilter: she constantly feels as if she has walked into a room and forgotten what she intended to do there; on TV, the President seems to be the wrong person in the wrong place; her dreams are full of disquiet. Meanwhile, her husband's decade-long dedication to his invention, the causality violation device (which he would greatly prefer you not call a \"time machine\") has effectively stalled his career and made him a laughingstock in the physics community. But he may be closer to success than either of them knows or can possibly imagine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVersion Control\u003c\/i\u003e is about a possible near future, but it's also about the way we live now. It's about smart phones and self-driving cars and what we believe about the people we meet on the Internet. It's about a couple, Rebecca and Philip, who have experienced a tragedy, and about how they help-and fail to help-each other through it. Emotionally powerful and stunningly visionary, \u003ci\u003eVersion Control\u003c\/i\u003e will alter the way you see your future and your present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113921593584,"sku":"2940169091342","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169091342_p0.jpg?v=1769894009","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169091342","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}