{"product_id":"2940169295207","title":"The Last One: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSurvival is the name of the game as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself in Alexandra Oliva's fast-paced novel of suspense.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face challenges that will test the limits of their endurance. While they are out there, something terrible happens-but how widespread is the destruction, and has it occurred naturally or is it man-made? Cut off from society, the contestants know nothing of it. When one of them-a young woman the show's producers call Zoo-stumbles across the devastation, she can imagine only that it is part of the game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlone and disoriented, Zoo is heavy with doubt regarding the life-and husband-she left behind, but she refuses to quit. Staggering countless miles across unfamiliar territory, Zoo must summon all her survival skills-and learn new ones as she goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as her emotional and physical reserves dwindle, she grasps that the real world might have been altered in terrifying ways-and her ability to parse the charade will be either her triumph or her undoing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSophisticated and provocative, \u003ci\u003eThe Last One\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that forces us to confront the role that media plays in our perception of what is real: how readily we cast our judgments, how easily we are manipulated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150306132208,"sku":"2940169295207","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169295207_p0.jpg?v=1763773776","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169295207","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}