{"product_id":"9780312339432","title":"Nine Wives","description":"\u003cp\u003eHenry Mann is a 32-year-old bachelor who has spent the last few years watching everyone he knows get married. After the most recent wedding, where an intoxicated Henry proposes to no less than three women (including the rabbi), it dawns on him that being single isn't that much fun after all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNine Wives\u003c\/i\u003e is an inventive, original, funny, and big-hearted novel, a book I will recommend to anyone interested in good fiction.\"—Tim O'Brien, National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eJuly, July\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dan Elish has written an extremely funny book.\"—Jay Parini, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Apprentice Lover\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dan Elish has created a Portnoy for the 21st century.\"—David Eddie, author of \u003ci\u003eChump Change\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Henry Mann wages battle between the real world and the imagined one with equal parts goofiness and suaveness. A very charming novel.\"—Antonya Nelson, author of \u003ci\u003eFemale Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Enough to put Bridget Jones to shame.\"—Helen Schulman, author of \u003ci\u003eP.S.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In a world where \u003ci\u003eSex and the City \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBergdorff Blondes \u003c\/i\u003etell us what we think we need to know about relationships, Elish has created a world far more real without stinting on the wit, insight, or hilarity.\"—Jonathan Rabb, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Q\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dan Elish at last shows women what lurks within the minds of men.\"—Helen Ellis, author of \u003ci\u003eEating the Cheshire Cat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I read \u003ci\u003eNine Wives\u003c\/i\u003e while Dan and I were dating. I didn't speak to him for a week, but I married him anyway.\"—Andrea Elish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024281911536,"sku":"9780312339432","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780312339432_p0.jpg?v=1763676544","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780312339432","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}