{"product_id":"2940169237290","title":"The Engagements","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eCommencement \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMaine\u003c\/i\u003e comes a gorgeous, sprawling novel about marriage-about those who marry in a white heat of passion, those who marry for partnership and comfort, and those who live together, love each other, and have absolutely no intention of ruining it all with a wedding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Evelyn has been married to her husband for forty years-forty years since he slipped off her first wedding ring and put his own in its place. Delphine has seen both sides of love-the ecstatic, glorious highs of seduction, and the bitter, spiteful fury that descends when it's over. James, a paramedic who works the night shift, knows his wife's family thinks she could have done better; while Kate, partnered with Dan for a decade, has seen every kind of wedding-beach weddings, backyard weddings, castle weddings-and has vowed never, ever, to have one of her own. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As these lives and marriages unfold in surprising ways, we meet Frances Gerety, a young advertising copywriter in 1947. Frances is working on the De Beers campaign and she needs a signature line, so, one night before bed, she scribbles a phrase on a scrap of paper: \"A Diamond Is Forever.\" And that line changes everything.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A rich, layered, exhilarating novel spanning nearly a hundred years, \u003ci\u003eThe Engagements\u003c\/i\u003e captures four wholly unique marriages, while tracing the story of diamonds in America, and the way-for better or for worse-these glittering stones have come to symbolize our deepest hopes for everlasting love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150240760048,"sku":"2940169237290","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169237290_p0.jpg?v=1763769289","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169237290","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}