{"product_id":"9780525955047","title":"Oh! You Pretty Things","description":"\u003cb\u003e“A Hollywood native from the wrong side of the Walk of Fame makes a play for star status” \u003cb\u003e(\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ein Shanna Mahin’s acclaimed novel, called “quite a breakout”  by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJess Dunne is third-generation Hollywood, but her star on the boulevard has yet to materialize. Sure, she’s got a Santa Monica address and a working actress roommate, but with her nowhere barista job in a town that acknowledges zeroes only as a dress size, she’s a dead girl walking.\u003cp\u003eEnter Jess’s mother—a failed actress who puts the strange in estrangement. She dives headlong into her daughter’s downward spiral, forcing Jess to muster all her spite and self-preservation to snag a career upgrade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a personal assistant for a famous (and secretly agoraphobic) film composer, Jess’s workdays are now filled with shopping for luxury goods and cooking in his perfectly designed kitchen. Jess kills at cooking, a talent that only serves her intensifying urge to dig in to Los Angeles’s celebrity buffet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen her food garners the attention of an actress on the rise, well, she’s all too willing to throw it in with the composer and upgrade again, a decision that will have far-reaching ramifications that could explode all her relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll the while, her mother looms ever closer, forcing Jess to confront the traumatic secrets she’s been running from all her life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOh! You Pretty Things \u003c\/i\u003eis a dizzying ride at the carnival of fame, a fast-paced and sharply funny work that dares to imagine what happens when we go over the top in a town of gilded excess.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058716852464,"sku":"9780525955047","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780525955047_p0.jpg?v=1763711187","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780525955047","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}