{"product_id":"9780374713676","title":"The Last Laugh: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Choice*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the award-winning author Lynn Freed, who’s been called a “literary star” by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eReview\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a hilarious and brilliant new novel about the riotous, passion-filled adventures of three women who \u003ci\u003ethought\u003c\/i\u003e they were past their prime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo escape their griping grown children, husbands and lovers, and an abundance of grandchildren underfoot, three self-proclaimed “old bags,” Dania, Ruth, and Bess, head for a quiet island on the Aegean Sea. They’ll spend a year by the water—watching the sunset, eating grilled fish and fresh olives, sipping ouzo. They deserve it, they say. After all those years, the three women will finally have some peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcept that they can’t. For one, Bess, a pampered, once-beautiful inheritress, falls swiftly into an affair with a poetry-writing taxi driver—who has, of course, a territorial wife. And Dania, a therapist, begins to receive an increasing number of cryptically menacing phone calls from a psychotic patient. An ex-lover of Ruth’s shows up unexpectedly, right before one of Bess’s does—and then the women’s children arrive, with their own demanding children in tow. As the island quickly becomes crowded, the women’s serene year in Greece devolves perilously, and uproariously, into something much more complicated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the wit of Maria Semple’s \u003ci\u003eToday Will Be \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eDifferent\u003c\/i\u003e and all the adventure of Deborah Moggach’s \u003ci\u003eThe Best Exotic Marigold Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, Lynn Freed’s \u003ci\u003eThe Last \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaugh \u003c\/i\u003eis at once wildly funny and deeply perceptive, an exuberant story of friendship and pleasure, family and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104189497584,"sku":"9780374713676","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374713676_p0.jpg?v=1769917250","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374713676","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}