{"product_id":"9780385507042","title":"Tiger in a Trance","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of Robert Stone and Denis Johnson, a darkly authentic road novel set in the nomadic world of the Deadheads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is 1985, and eighteen-year-old Jason Burke is a full-time Deadhead, following the Grateful Dead around the country and surviving by selling T-shirts. But Jason is about to discover the lucrative ease of selling drugs. He'll also meet the women who will play key romantic roles in his life: Jane, the tall, green-eyed girlfriend of a drug dealer; and Melanie, a rebellious high school girl, one-armed as the result of a car accident. Jason's one-night tryst with Melanie sets the stage for their future before Jason takes off for California with the tour.\u003cbr\u003eJason has a past of his own. He grew up overseas, the son of a journalist, and when he was eleven his father was killed in a Syrian prison, accused of spying. Jason has never dealt directly with his father's death, and his detachment has estranged him from his mother and his older brother.\u003cbr\u003eIn Carmel, Jason stops for the night to see Harry, an old friend of his father. He learns that Harry, a rock-and-roll-loving alcoholic, is dying of emphysema. Eventually, Jason falls into drug dealing in earnest; hits the road with Melanie; is pursued by private detectives; and returns to nurse Harry through his final illness, all the while battling his own increasingly serious heroin addiction. The end of the road is near.\u003cbr\u003eCombining the high spirits of youth with the sometimes jaded wisdom of the counterculture, \u003ci\u003eTiger in a Trance\u003c\/i\u003e is a startlingly sure-handed and accomplished debut novel that recalls such generational classics as \u003ci\u003eLess Than Zero\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Beach\u003c\/i\u003e. It shows how music, drugs, andespecially love can be enchanting, and how the most bewitching things can also be the most bedeviling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author: MAX LUDINGTON's fiction has appeared in such publications as \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNerve\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMeridian\u003c\/i\u003e. He received his M.F.A. from Columbia University and now lives in New York. \u003ci\u003eTiger in a Trance\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e  ","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011068870896,"sku":"9780385507042","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385507042_p0.jpg?v=1763695195","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385507042","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}