{"product_id":"2940169302080","title":"A Weekend in New York","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"What are you feeling so anxious about? I'm the guy who has to go out there and lose.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"That's what I don't like. That's what you don't realize. It's harder on the rest of us.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I'm sure it must be,\" he said.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTolstoy claimed: \"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.\" But what if the happy families are actually the most unusual of all?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Essinger is a mid-ranking tennis professional on the ATP tour. His girlfriend Dana is an ex-model and photographer and the mother of their two-year-old son, Cal. Together they form a tableau of the contented upper-middle-class New York family. But summer storms are blowing through Manhattan, and Paul's parents have come to stay in the build-up to the US Open. Over the course of the weekend, several generations of domestic tension are brought to boiling point....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to be a family? To be an individual? And how do we deal with the responsibilities these roles impose upon us? A Weekend In New York intertwines the politics of the household and the state to forge a luminous national portrait on a deceptively local scale. Recalling some of America's most celebrated novelists amp;mdash; this is John Updike's Rabbit for a new generation amp;mdash; Benjamin Markovits' novel reminds us of the heights that social realism can reach.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114188783856,"sku":"2940169302080","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169302080_p0.jpg?v=1763679078","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169302080","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}