{"product_id":"2940169437263","title":"Beautiful Children: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller by the author of the forthcoming novel \u003ci\u003eAlice amp; Oliver \u003c\/i\u003e| Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters | A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend  and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine,  makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally  distraught, the boy's father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife  even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the Ewings  navigate the mystery of what's become of their son, the circumstances surrounding  Newell's vanishing and other events on that same night reverberate through the lives  of seemingly disconnected strangers: a comic book illustrator in town for a weekend  of debauchery; a painfully shy and possibly disturbed young artist; a stripper who  imagines moments from her life as if they were movie scenes; a bubbly teenage wiccan  anarchist; a dangerous and scheming gutter punk; a band of misfit runaways. The people  of \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Children\u003c\/i\u003e are \"urban nomads,\" each with a past to hide and a pain to  nurture, every one of them searching for salvation and barreling toward destruction,  weaving their way through a neon underworld of sex, drugs, and the spinning wheels  of chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this masterly debut novel, Charles Bock mixes incandescent prose  with devious humor to capture Las Vegas with unprecedented scope and nuance and to  provide a glimpse into a microcosm of modern America. \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Children\u003c\/i\u003e is an odyssey  of heartache and redemption heralding the arrival of a major new writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123068420336,"sku":"2940169437263","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169437263_p0.jpg?v=1763682608","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169437263","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}