{"product_id":"9780312304706","title":"Boys and Their Baby","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The boys\" are Adam and Huck, former college roommates. A decade out of college and just as long out of touch with each other, they are reunited when Adam arrives to share Huck's apartment on Russian Hill in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Their baby\" is Christopher, Huck's entrancing almost-one-year-old son, whose mother is nowhere in evidence and, at first, much to Adam's befuddlement, mysteriously unmentioned. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story centers on Adam as he sets out to construct a life for himself in the unfamiliar city. He assumes his new job as an English teacher at a fancy private school, where one of his students develops an obsessive (and disturbing) interest in him. Adam coasts into simultaneous affairs with two women: one of them a striking, locally celebrated chanteuse, and the other a physics teacher with a distinctive footwear fetish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the city and its denizens-women and men, gay and straight, young and old-make Adam welcome in various and telling ways...as he approaches a certain peace with his past (through letters to and from his riotously enraged ex-girlfriend and his hugely intimidating mother)...as living with the baby and the baby's father exerts a profound influence on Adam...as the story of the baby's missing mother dramatically unfolds...we watch Adam come to surprising terms with his life and himself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boys and Their Baby\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully entertaining novel of domestic and sexual manners, 1980s San Francisco-style, marking the debut of splendidly gifted novelist Larry Wolff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024323395824,"sku":"9780312304706","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780312304706_p0.jpg?v=1763676759","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780312304706","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}