{"product_id":"9780307454904","title":"Mr. Peanut","description":"\u003cp\u003eA\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNoteable Book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMesmerizing, exhilarating, and profoundly moving, \u003ci\u003eMr. Peanut \u003c\/i\u003eis a police procedural of the soul, a poignant investigation of the relentlessly mysterious human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Pepin has been in love with his wife, Alice, since the moment they met in a university seminar on Alfred Hitchcock. After thirteen years of marriage, he still can’t imagine a remotely happy life without her—yet he obsessively contemplates her demise. Soon she \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e dead, and David is both deeply distraught and the prime suspect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe detectives investigating Alice’s suspicious death have plenty of personal experience with conjugal enigmas: Ward Hastroll is happily married until his wife inexplicably becomes voluntarily and militantly bedridden; and Sam Sheppard is especially sensitive to the intricacies of marital guilt and innocence, having decades before been convicted and then exonerated of the brutal murder of \u003ci\u003ehis \u003c\/i\u003ewife. Like the Escher drawings that inspire the computer games David designs for a living, these complex, interlocking dramas are structurally and emotionally intense, subtle, and intriguing; they brilliantly explore the warring impulses of affection and hatred, and pose a host of arresting questions. Is it possible to know anyone fully, \u003ci\u003ecompletely\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAre murder and marriage two sides of the same coin, each endlessly recycling into the other? And what, in the end, is the truth about love?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024068493552,"sku":"9780307454904","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307454904_p0.jpg?v=1769887830","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307454904","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}