{"product_id":"2940170236305","title":"Big Bang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet in the 1950's, this epic, Warholian novel presents a brilliant and wholly original take on the years leading up to the Kennedy assassination.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere were you when you first heard President Kennedy had been shot? This is a question most people can answer, even if the answer is \"I wasn't born yet.\" In this epic novel, David Bowman makes the strong case that the shooting on November 22\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e, 1963 was the major, defining turning point that catapulted the world into an entirely new stratosphere. It was the second big bang.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this hilarious, lightning-fast historical novel, Bowman follows the most famous couples of the decade as their lives are torn apart by post-war's new normal. We see Lucille Ball's bizarre interrogation by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and Jackie Onassis' moonlight cruise with Frank Sinatra \u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eWe follow Norman Mailer and Arthur Miller as they attempt to get quickie divorces together at a loophole resort in Nevada and watch a young Howard Hunt snoop around South America with the newly founded CIA. A young Jimi Hendrix, now the epitome of counterculture cool, tries his luck as a clean cut army recruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with an almost documentary film like intensity, \u003ci\u003eBig Bang\u003c\/i\u003e is a posthumous work from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLet the Dog Drive\u003c\/i\u003e. A riotous account of a country, perhaps, at the beginning of the end.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47098303348976,"sku":"2940170236305","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170236305_p0.jpg?v=1763705932","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170236305","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}